Philosophy · 11. January 2025

The butterfly effect has two separate meanings. The first one describes a butterfly flapping its wings in the Sahara desert, that causes a tsunami across the Pacific ocean. A small change in the environment, or differential makes very large or sometimes devastating changes in the long run. The second one is based on causality. If you technically were to disrupt the life cycle of a butterfly by stepping on it in a theoretical time travel scenario then you would disrupt this form of reality by...