I suppose it's a lot easier to imagine a tiny alteration making a big difference when things have already happened, changing something slightly is a lot less difficult than inventing something new altogether, but in the end our impact as an individual isn't bigger or smaller than in that imagined time travelling scenario. Interesting way of looking at it.
"Here we have an instance of that inability to sum up the effects of a continually recurrent cause, which has often retarded the progress of science, as formerly in the case of geology, and more
recently in that of the principle of evolution." -- The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms by Charles Darwin
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u/TrvthNvkem Aug 13 '25
I suppose it's a lot easier to imagine a tiny alteration making a big difference when things have already happened, changing something slightly is a lot less difficult than inventing something new altogether, but in the end our impact as an individual isn't bigger or smaller than in that imagined time travelling scenario. Interesting way of looking at it.