That doesn’t matter for the points I was responding to, a matter of policy for what things to claim, given what your own understanding of the world happens to be.
you still have to realize that you can’t literally predict the future
There are claims about the facts of the world being made, apart from any emotions. Presence of emotional correlates doesn’t make corresponding events in the concrete physical world irrelevant.
That doesn’t matter for the points I was responding to, a matter of policy for what things to claim, given what your own understanding of the world happens to be.
You can’t know the future with certainty, but you can predict it. The sun will rise tomorrow. I’m much less certain that it will rise in 20 years, and not because there is nobody to observe it.
There are claims about the facts of the world being made, apart from any emotions. Presence of emotional correlates doesn’t make corresponding events in the concrete physical world irrelevant.