Is there something like “history of footsteps in the sand”? Sounds paradoxical but… a sense of the transitory parts of the lives of people who’ve lived and died.
Stuff that even they probably knew wouldn’t matter after they were gone.
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Is this sort of like chaperones and solvent effects in protein folding? They’re almost invisible after the protein is folded and active, but they were important in shaping the protein? Or do you mean ephemera that had very little impact on the current world-state?
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Not an example that is evocative for me, but sounds like it’s the right sort of figurative image
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Key is whether the ephemera you’re referring to were important in the world getting to where it currently is or if the world now is indistinguishable from a world that didn’t have those ephemera in its past.
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