 Nozick argues that our response to the experience machine reveals that well-being is not purely subjective: “We learn that something matters to us in addition to experience by imagining an experience machine and then realizing that we would not use it.” De Brigard (2010) reports finding that subjects’ intuitions about the experience were different if they were told they were already in such a machine, in which case they would not choose to unplug; he explains this in terms of the status quo bias. Weijers (2014) goes further, asking subjects about Nozick’s original scenario while also asking them to justify their response; he found that many of the justifications implied a kind of imaginative resistance to the scenario or cited irrelevant factors. He also found that respondents were more likely to say that a ‘plugged in life’ would be better when they were choosing for someone else, rather than for themselves. Löhr (2019) shows that a third of philosophers would stay in the machine and recommend it to others. Hindriks and Douven (2018) further show that people are more likely to agree to choose pleasurable, but illusory experiences in scenarios that are more realistic than the experience machine.   