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Indistinguishable from Magic Indistinguishable from Magic
It is telling that so many of our computational processes are named for, or evoke, supernatural processes…For most people, many of the significant and powerful processes and devices around us…are effectively black boxes, amendable only to those with specialized knowledge and privileged access…It’s no wonder that the most repeated of Arthur C.
... See moreCritics of the disenchantment narrative often argue that technical mastery of the world does not necessarily strip it of all magic, mystery, and awe; only an impoverished imagination will fail to find beauty in the revelations of science or ignore our capacity to discover, or invent, new sites of wonder.
Meghan O'Gieblyn • God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
I’ve always thought of magic in two ways; there’s performative magic and belief magic.