Bescribe the "experience machine" objection to the view that happiness( or pleasure and positive feeling) is the only thing that is ultmately good.

Experience machine

This is a thought experiment and it was put forward by the philosopher Nozick in this experiment he describes by imagining a choice between everyday life and reality. In this theory the main concept which is explained is the theory of hedonism and it explains that pleasure is good.

A machine is imagined that could give as anything desirable and can give us anything that we want. He puts forward an argument if pleasure is an intrinsic value then people would be hooked up with it and experience machine that would produce the favorable sensations.  

it is a part of john locke's natural rights popular during the age of enlightenment that people had inalienable rights to life, liberty and property. this was reflected by thomas jefferson in his declaration of independence as rights to life,liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

another line in the declaration of independence is that people have certain rights just because they are human. humans are capable of obeying the three natural rights john locke mentioned making them governable by these laws and therefore entitled to these rights as well.

i have to go with a for this one