Originally Posted by
Singu
Do you not age, change your beliefs, act differently in different situations and circumstances, be influenced by the environment, etc?
Anyway, the point isn't whether the future will either stay the same or be different, we can't really know what will happen in the future, unless we make certain assumptions about the future. But it's not really adequate to say that the future will be different because we say that it will, or the future will be the same as the past, because it has always been that way.
But it can be explained. For instance, we might ask the question, "Why do we age?", and that can be answered biologically, like cellular degradation or something like that. We can't "inductively" extrapolate and say that the average life expectancy of a person is 60 because it has been 60 in the past, because the length is increasing over time. And we might ask, "Why do people change their beliefs?", and we might answer because they've been influenced by their environment, or they've spontaneously changed their minds cognitively, or something like that. And so on and so forth.