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comment by bioemerl
bioemerl  ·  3719 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski, Do you believe in Magic?

There does not exist a single thing that has been explained to have any form of magical or supernatural explanation. There is very little that exists which has not been explained by some form of physical phenomena.

Personally, I have looked up and learned a lot of the details on how computers actually work on the inside, and it's actually amazing how "simple" they are once you get down to it. Just sets of systems that are working together to process numbers. Minecraft is an amazing tool to use to learn a bit about that. If you have the game look up "how to build a redstone adder in minecraft". Then "minecraft computer", and you can learn all the workings.

Now, you still couldn't repair the thing, because that takes millions of dollars on the processor level. However, it's not magic at all.

I find less joy in appreciating the magic of the world around me, and more about appreciating the amazing complexity of the hundreds, thousands, even millions of processes going on every second in my life for something as simple as typing these words on this computer, or creating the thoughts that drive me typing those words.

And on top of that, we exist in a universe where the most/next most complex thing to what is around us every day is a fancy shape of rock, at least in the range of light years. Those millions of orderly actions are not only amazing, they are rare and unique.

Perhaps you would consider my appreciation of that sort of thing magic. I don't really, but I have spent too long talking to people who actually believe in "real" magick to ever use the word.