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A mad scientist invents a machine that would allow you to live in a personalized simulation, similar to a video game or the Matrix.  The scientist can guarantee that you will be happy in this machine as it caters to your every whim and fantasy, and while you are in the machine, you won't even know it is a simulation.  All that said, every person and thing you encounter within the machine is simply a programmed simulation and nothing and no one you encounter will be real.  The catch is this... if you choose to live in the simulation, you can never go back to the real world.  What would you do?  Spend the rest of your life where you are happy in a fantasy world?  Or choose to live your life in the real world?  Why?

This experiment brings up the essential question "What is the Meaning of Life?".   What defines a good life?