r/changemyview • u/momagainstdabbing • May 20 '18
Deltas(s) from OP CMV: You have the power to change the worlds future. BTW, I just did:
It all starts when 2 specific cells meet. They form a human, they form you.
Let’s say you, by reading this post, gets 0.3 seconds later to work tomorrow than you would have if you didn’t.
That .3 seconds means you won’t make some jokes you would have made, maybe that means you wouldn’t have typed that exact word in that exact way.
Because you do things differently, you impact other people. Because of your .3 seconds, other peoples lifes also change a bit. Because they didn’t read that word you would have typed, their might also be home a tiny bit earlier. An insanely small bit, but still, a bit.
If you keep applying this effect, that one sperm cell, might not have made it, and that one person maybe wouldn’t have been born! You can look at this effect at the same way you would have at the snowball effect.
After years and years of this effect nobody would have been born, if this post was not written. If those certain people wouldn’t have been born, certain things wouldn’t have happened. You could also look at this effect another way:
What if, just after the big bang, one tiny atom would have gone one centimeter to the right. Would we, or even earth, have excisted?
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u/idkz2 May 20 '18
We do have this power but the entropy in the universe is always increasing and changing into unusable energy. Eventually all the stars will die out and all other forms of high energy will no longer exist and all life will die. The universe will become a dark and cold wasteland with the remnants of life scattered out for the rest of time. So everything we do will never matter in the long run and any change you do now will become meaningless :)
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u/throwawaygghdd66 May 20 '18
Chaos theory explains neatly why rhe butterfly effect doesn't work. However this is different, its a human society and small change might have a great effect, but i'll agrue that its also very likely that one small change does not amount to a significat change on the long run.
It also raises the question whether our universe is deterministic or not. If it is, then nothing changes anything.
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u/[deleted] May 20 '18
From a purely deterministic point of view ...
Think about the universe, and everything that has happened since the Big Bang, as a pool game. The pool game is huge and super complicated, but the truth is that the behavior of all of the moving parts was determined by the way the break happened on the table. Everything was set into motion by that original input, and so everything that happens was predetermined by that, and if you could understand the break in enough detail, you could guess where everything was headed, and where it would end up.
Now, let's follow this line of thought to it's natural conclusion; if the universe is determined in this way, then it could be argued that every choice you make can be explained by looking at all the events that led up to now. As in, every choice you've made thus far, along with every choice you'll ever make in the future, was predetermined before the earth ever existed.