Your position is consistent, though to me somewhat troubling.
I wouldn’t equate “unable to have different preferences or to envision a better situation” with “happy”. Perhaps Plato’s cave applies here. Or consider a child who is born in an underground prison, Banelike, and never sees the light of sun. Who is then offered the opportunity of freedom on the surface and refuses out of fear or ignorance. Would you think they are “happy”? Perhaps, but they could be happier. Or at least they could experience a richer level of existence, given that humans evolved to enjoy fresh air and nature landscapes and the feeling of the sun on their skin, something they can’t even imagine at the moment.
Imagine writing a sort of will for altered-mind situations. If you fell under a hypnotism that turned you into a slave, would you want to be liberated? Or would you want people to always stop at your currently expressed preferences?
Doesn’t this mean that you would connect yourself to Nozick’s machine, since it would be easier to be “happy” in a state of brainwashed slavery than in the complex life of a free agent?
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Your position is consistent, though to me somewhat troubling.
I wouldn’t equate “unable to have different preferences or to envision a better situation” with “happy”. Perhaps Plato’s cave applies here. Or consider a child who is born in an underground prison, Banelike, and never sees the light of sun. Who is then offered the opportunity of freedom on the surface and refuses out of fear or ignorance. Would you think they are “happy”? Perhaps, but they could be happier. Or at least they could experience a richer level of existence, given that humans evolved to enjoy fresh air and nature landscapes and the feeling of the sun on their skin, something they can’t even imagine at the moment.
Imagine writing a sort of will for altered-mind situations. If you fell under a hypnotism that turned you into a slave, would you want to be liberated? Or would you want people to always stop at your currently expressed preferences?
Doesn’t this mean that you would connect yourself to Nozick’s machine, since it would be easier to be “happy” in a state of brainwashed slavery than in the complex life of a free agent?