The butterfly effect is obviously real, but do some major events “screen off” much of what came before?
Like yes, the other commuters changed what time I got home each evening, but then my wedding arrives, and that event is so significant that its effect (on what happens that night, say) is not altered by previous noise?
The butterfly effect is obviously real, but do some major events “screen off” much of what came before?
Like yes, the other commuters changed what time I got home each evening, but then my wedding arrives, and that event is so significant that its effect (on what happens that night, say) is not altered by previous noise?
that's a good point, Victor. I'm not sure a wedding would do it, because tiny variations in your action going into it would influence your behavior in tiny ways throughout. But suppose I come home in the evening and there's a gas leak and my whole house explodes. That might do it.
I also wonder about sleep, though. Maybe whether I fall sleep at 11:03:11 versus 11:03:12 has no effect AT ALL on me when I wake up?
Still, even if there is this screening off in the evening, if I bump into you on the streetcar, there are all the people you will interact with differently up until the wedding/bomb/falling asleep.
The butterfly effect is obviously real, but do some major events “screen off” much of what came before?
Like yes, the other commuters changed what time I got home each evening, but then my wedding arrives, and that event is so significant that its effect (on what happens that night, say) is not altered by previous noise?
that's a good point, Victor. I'm not sure a wedding would do it, because tiny variations in your action going into it would influence your behavior in tiny ways throughout. But suppose I come home in the evening and there's a gas leak and my whole house explodes. That might do it.
I also wonder about sleep, though. Maybe whether I fall sleep at 11:03:11 versus 11:03:12 has no effect AT ALL on me when I wake up?
Still, even if there is this screening off in the evening, if I bump into you on the streetcar, there are all the people you will interact with differently up until the wedding/bomb/falling asleep.
Free yourself from clumsy gods then by planning an explosion.
Thanks, all of that makes sense!