[PHI 2200] The Reverse Experience Machine

Robert Nozick's experience machine thought-experiment is supposed to show that motivational hedonism, the view that people are motivated only by experiences of pleasure and pain, is false. Nozick's argument from the experience machine is supposed to go roughly like this:

1. If all that matters to us are experiences of pleasure and pain, then we would want to get into the experience machine.
2. But we wouldn't want to get into the experience machine.
3. Therefore, it is not the case that all that matters to us are experiences of pleasure and pain.

Indeed, most people say that they would not want to get into the experience machine. Now consider the reverse experience machine.





In this case, most people say that they would prefer to stay in the machine. If it is true that most people simply prefer to stick with the life they already have, does that undermine Nozick's argument against hedonism? If so, how?