It’s a subtle matter, but… you clearly don’t really mean determinism here, because you’ve said a hundred times before how the universe is ultimately deterministic even at the quantum level.
Maybe predictability is the word we want. Or maybe it’s something else, like fairness or “moral non-neutrality”; it doesn’t seem fair that Hitler could have that large an impact by himself, even though there’s nothing remotely non-deterministic about that assertion.
Macroscopic determinism, i.e., the belief that an outcome was not sensitive to small thermal (never mind quantum) fluctuations. If I’m hungry and somebody offers me a tasty hamburger, it’s macroscopically determined that I’ll say yes in almost all Everett branches; if Zimbabwe starts printing more money, it’s macroscopically determined that their inflation rates will rise further.
Perhapss something along the lines of “stability”? The idea being that small perturbations of input should lead to only small perturbations down the line. (“Stability” isn’t really the proper word for that, but I’m not sure what is.)
It’s a subtle matter, but… you clearly don’t really mean determinism here, because you’ve said a hundred times before how the universe is ultimately deterministic even at the quantum level.
Maybe predictability is the word we want. Or maybe it’s something else, like fairness or “moral non-neutrality”; it doesn’t seem fair that Hitler could have that large an impact by himself, even though there’s nothing remotely non-deterministic about that assertion.
Macroscopic determinism, i.e., the belief that an outcome was not sensitive to small thermal (never mind quantum) fluctuations. If I’m hungry and somebody offers me a tasty hamburger, it’s macroscopically determined that I’ll say yes in almost all Everett branches; if Zimbabwe starts printing more money, it’s macroscopically determined that their inflation rates will rise further.
The relevant mathematical term is well-posedness, specifically
Specifically, the short-term changes are small or at least bounded, though the long term behavior may change drastically.
Perhapss something along the lines of “stability”? The idea being that small perturbations of input should lead to only small perturbations down the line. (“Stability” isn’t really the proper word for that, but I’m not sure what is.)