I could come to believe that the simplest explanation for my sensory experiences is a world-model which implies that my actions can have consequences affecting an infinitely large future. Analogous to how in the real world I have come to believe that my actions can have consequences affecting an extremely large future volume of space-time. In neither case do you have certain knowledge that your actions will actually have the purported effects, but that can be the favored hypothesis given your (finite) sensory data.
How would you come to distinguish between an infinitely large future and just a very very large future, given that all your experiences are finite (and pretty limited at that).
The model implying an infinite future could be favored by the evidence. This is the way we currently make predictions about cosmological events that are very far in the future: we can’t directly observe the events(or fit them all in our brain even if we could observe them) but we can get evidence for models that imply things about them.
I could come to believe that the simplest explanation for my sensory experiences is a world-model which implies that my actions can have consequences affecting an infinitely large future. Analogous to how in the real world I have come to believe that my actions can have consequences affecting an extremely large future volume of space-time. In neither case do you have certain knowledge that your actions will actually have the purported effects, but that can be the favored hypothesis given your (finite) sensory data.
How would you come to distinguish between an infinitely large future and just a very very large future, given that all your experiences are finite (and pretty limited at that).
The model implying an infinite future could be favored by the evidence. This is the way we currently make predictions about cosmological events that are very far in the future: we can’t directly observe the events(or fit them all in our brain even if we could observe them) but we can get evidence for models that imply things about them.