I haven't thought about The Butterfly Effect for a long time. This is the idea that some systems are chaotic, a small change to the initial conditions can result in a massive change in the outcome. A ...
@nprofile1q... Indeed. The whole point of the butterfly metaphor is that after a certain point (amount of time), causes are unknowable, so they might as well be a butterfly.
It's not saying that there's a point of leverage that you could use to produce a desired outcome if you were sufficiently well informed, because there's no such thing as sufficiently well informed.
It's not saying that there's a point of leverage that you could use to produce a desired outcome if you were sufficiently well informed, because there's no such thing as sufficiently well informed.