Monday, May 11, 2009
The Butterfly Effect
The butterfly effect is based on chaos theory and basically says that the flapping of a butterfly wings (small atmospheric changes) somewhere in the world causes a chain of events that, theoretically, could be linked to a large scale event such as a tornado. That's very simplified obviously, but the idea is truly complex, even for us 2-legged creatures. Imagine that the simple, little things that we do every day change the grander scale of humanity. That my decisions today, good and bad, affect people around the globe for today and tomorrow. Does that change would I do today? Should it? Just a thought. . .
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The further challenge is that the decision you may be faced with may not have a "right and wrong" or "good and bad" sort of fork... at least not in the grander sense of things.
ReplyDeleteThe butterfly flapping its wings could never conceive that this would be anything but perfectly good -- what else is a butterfly known for, if not the beauty of the flapping of its wings?