Rod and Kale talk about Robert Nozick’s Experience Machine thought experiment. A longtime teacher tweeted out her shock that after years of teaching this to the class, a majority of her students ...

Zu viel! Zu viel! O, dass ich nun erwachte! ~ Tannhäuser According to legend, the bard Tannhäuser, on his way to a competition at the Wartburg, was seduced by the goddess Hulda, the consort of Wotan.

I've been going back today over old issues of Rod Dreher's Diary, my subscription-only newsletter about spirituality, and ran across one from 2021, on an idea the philosopher Robert Nozick had. It's ...

When Nozick first introduced the experience machine, the idea was purely hypothetical. Today, however, the lines between his philosophical musings and our reality in the digital age are not just ...