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Record W4417200199 · doi:10.62920/j0mwn069

Expérience de pensée et quête du bien-être: au-delà des plaisirs artificiels

2025· article· W4417200199 on OpenAlexaff

Bibliographic record

VenueFacteurs humains : · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPhilosophy, Sociology, Political Theory
Canadian institutionsUniversité Laval
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRealmIllusionAction (physics)Key (lock)

Abstract

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In his paper Anarchy, State, and Utopia, philosopher Robert Nozick proposes a famous thought experiment, the “experience machine.” This machine, designed by neuropsychologists, would allow individuals to live all the desired experiences, creating a perfect illusion of their reality. However, a crucial question arises : would we choose to connect to it for a life of illusory, yet intense pleasures ? Nozick argues that most people would refuse, concluding that something matters to us beyond our subjective experiences. In this paper, I examine the implications of this thought experiment, including Nozick’s conclusion—that something is important to us beyond our experiences—and the objection it raises against hedonist theories of well-being. This article aims to provide clarification on one of the major contemporary debates in the philosophy of well-being : the validity of hedonist theories and the need to develop a theory of well-being that goes beyond the realm of individual experiences.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.009
Threshold uncertainty score0.025

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0040.024
Scholarly communication0.0090.011
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.046
GPT teacher head0.351
Teacher spread0.305 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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