Abstract

None of us are immortal. We do not have an infinite time to live; we are not temporally endless. Yet we could have lived an infinite number of ways, rendering us modally endless. We argue that modal endlessness leads to a puzzle similar to one that Jorge Luis Borges raises in “The Immortal.” After explaining this puzzle, we walk through some responses that do not work, and present two revisionary responses that do. One of these solutions requires radically reassessing our values, while the other requires accepting that certain modal facts are shaped by agency and choice.