R Nozick Quotes

Cooper, Mick (2019). Integrating Counselling & Psychotherapy. Directionality, Synergy and Social Change. Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE. p. 85. ISBN 978-1-526-48118-4. Nozick suggests, like Keanu Reeves choosing the red pill over the blue pill in The Matrix, that most of us would want reality over pleasure.

The Matrix also makes references to historical myths and philosophy, including gnosticism, existentialism, and nihilism.[9][10] The central concept of the film has been compared to Plato's Allegory of the Cave,[11][12] Zhuangzi's "Zhuangzi dreamed he was a butterfly", René Descartes's skepticism[13][14] and evil demon, Kant's reflections on the Phenomenon versus the Ding an sich, Robert Nozick's "experience machine",[15] the concept of a simulated reality and the brain in a vat thought experiment.[16][17]