I definitely think electromagnetism is magical from our perspective.
Everything else is pretty crude and we have to start looking inward for anything resembling magic.
I argue that magic doesn’t exist by definition. If it actually, provably, exists we define it as not magical. Why isn’t magnetism considered magic? Because it exists and can be studied.
Software is the closest thing we have to magic spells. You need to know the correct “activation words” and make sure they follow the correct order. If that aligns, your magic spell works; suddenly there’s something on the screen that just wasn’t there before. Congratulations, you completed your first summoning.
And the magic words are powered by magic stones that we write certain sigils in it to make it think.
Don’t forget to hit the sigils with lightning
I cast Alexa Play Back To The Jungle By Michael Guy Bowman
Me when I draw ritual sigils in silicon to summon demons that mimic the speech of humans to decieve us (I asked ChatGPT to explain special relativity)
Techno-mages enter the chat
lol no. Software is just a written form of logic.
Writing incomprehensible hexes onto stone wafers then harnessing lightning to make them think is where it is at.
Have you read SICP?
As Arthur C. Clarke said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
Came here expecting someone to have posted this quote, was not disappointed.
I think the MCU of all places summed this up perfectly and I think it was in Thor: The Dark World where Jane has fuck knows what and they operate on her in Asgard and she’s giving medical terms and they’re like “WTF just hook her up to the whoziwhatzhit and she’ll be fine.”
I think it’s magic how the sum time sunk into a thing can be greater than the time it took to make the thing.
It’s magic when 20 hours goes into a painting and it generates (5 minutes * 300) worth of emotions.
It took Tolkein more energy / emotion to make LotR than I’m willing to give appreciating it. But everyone combined has certainly outweighed what Tolkein put in. It’s magic to me to think of “free” “emotion hours”.
Everything else is so… crass. Transactional. A battery that holds X energy means the sum energy people can extract would be X at best. I have 7 hotdogs and so at most 7 people can each have one.
But art? Games? Puzzles? It’s magic how there’s basically infinite energy inside.
I think it’s magic how the sum time sunk into a thing can be greater than the time it took to make the thing.
It’s magic when 20 hours goes into a painting and it generates (5 minutes * 300) worth of emotions.
This is why I like music. I’m not spending 100 hours to make something someone will look at for 10 seconds.
I played this guitar part for 5 mins? You listen to it for 5 mins. (creation time may be multiplied by fuckups and overdubs/additional tracks)
Fire, electricty, gravity and magnetism is magic, and you cant convince me otherwise.
I vaguely remember a quote about magic that can apply to anything. Someone taking something ordinary, and doing something extra ordinary with it.
A deck of cards isn’t magic, but what the person DOES with it can be magical. Same with amusician and a musical instrument , or a writer with a pen and paper.
Yes to the former no the latter.
I kindof agree but I’d phrase it the other way round: people always tended to call things they don’t understand Magic.
The inverse of Clark’s saying: sufficiently explained magic is indistinguishable from science (credit: Girl Genius webcomic)
sucky magic. Well until we have transporters and replicators.
Belief in magic is kind of hard to define, anthropologically—we tend to call anything that contradicts currently-known laws of physics “magic”, but that makes the term contingent on the observer’s knowledge rather than the believer’s. (For instance, things like astrology and alchemy that we regard as magic now were thought to be the result of natural forces in the Middle Ages.) But there are other things the believers themselves agree are “magic”, even if they think they can explain it.
For myself, I would call magic the belief that there are multiple, independent systems of causality, whether the believer fully understands those systems or not—and by that definition, technology isn’t magic for most people.
I like the idea that there is a God, hes just the programmer of our simulation. Magic was real, in the form of exploitable glitches, and got patched out as time went on.
Magic was never real. It was technology all along.
People were incredibly stupid when the churches didn’t allow education for the masses.
A Yo-Yo would have made you a magician. It’s not a magical feeling to be worshipped by idiots for knowing how a Yo-Yo works. It’s just sad.
People look into space and say “I don’t see God” like bro- you see objects so huge and so far apart we measure their distance in the time it takes light to travel between them and us- what were you expecting to see?
