I think his point isn’t so much that what you’re saying WILL have a practical impact on your sensory experiences, just that it has the potential to do so. What you “expect” to experience as a result. In real life we can’t weld a pair of trillion-pound bars of gold to each other and then see how much they weigh, but because of mathematics, we know that if we were to place them on an accurate scale we would see a weight of two trillion pounds.
I think his point isn’t so much that what you’re saying WILL have a practical impact on your sensory experiences, just that it has the potential to do so. What you “expect” to experience as a result. In real life we can’t weld a pair of trillion-pound bars of gold to each other and then see how much they weigh, but because of mathematics, we know that if we were to place them on an accurate scale we would see a weight of two trillion pounds.