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 If individual-butterfly-wing-flapping-in-Brazil status is a material part of the [[complex system]] that generates weather systems in China, then how many other factors are as or ''more'' material?
-It is respectfully submitted there would be trillions. Have fun deconstructing the [[Causation|causal chain]] to see how much of a role your butterfly actually had. As Elizabeth Warren has found to her cost, just ten generations dilutes your ancestor’s genetic contribution to your DNA to 1/1024, and in the same as way there is no meaningful sense in which a flighty butterfly causes Chinese hurricanes.
+Trillions. Have fun deconstructing the [[Causation|causal chain]] to see how much of a role your butterfly actually had. Just ten generations dilutes your ancestor’s genetic contribution to your DNA to 1/1024, and in the same as way there is ''no meaningful sense in which a flighty Brazilian butterfly causes Chinese hurricanes''.
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