is there still a moral way to behave—when nothing you do will show in the material world in an hour or so?
Suppose the universe has an inescapable Big Crunch or Heat Death ahead—is there a moral way to behave, when nothing you do will show in the material world in a googolplex years or so?
Either way the answer is yes: all the materialist consequentialists need is a utility functional which has support at all times t rather than just at t_infinity.
Suppose the universe has an inescapable Big Crunch or Heat Death ahead—is there a moral way to behave, when nothing you do will show in the material world in a googolplex years or so?
Either way the answer is yes: all the materialist consequentialists need is a utility functional which has support at all times t rather than just at t_infinity.