Discuss whether Aristotle would consider someone hooked up to the experience machine to be happy in the sense captured by that notion of eudaimonia.

Discuss whether Aristotle would consider someone hooked up to the experience machine to be happy in the sense captured by that notion of eudaimonia.

If you had the chance to be permanently hooked up to the experience machine, would you do it? Explain your choice. For example, if you would not hook up, you may discuss the kinds of goods or aims that would be lost by hooking up, or you may discuss the core, essential features of your life (or of human life in general) that are undermined by being in such a state. Reflect on human life:

Based on your response, do you think that we can describe aspects of a telos (in Aristotles sense) that applies to humanity in general, or at least most people? Correspondingly, could there be a difference between feeling happy and being happy? Do you think that people can be wrong about happiness? (Notice that this isnt asking whether there are different ways in which people can find happiness; its asking whether some of those ways could be mistaken.)

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