• remon@ani.social
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    14 hours ago

    Sure, if you just toss a phone on the island and let them try to figure it out with no context, some might reach the conclusion that it’s magic.

    But if you actually show it to them in person, it don’t think it would be hard to convince them it’s man-made. They are familiar with tools and making stuff and the fact that there are other people that have stuff they don’t have.

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      Well yeah, if you explain magic it stops being magic, that’s how magic is. If you explained the magic of Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings using advanced quantum physics or something you’d turn it into an explainable, mundane world, like what we have done with the real world. But the magic remains under different terms.

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        14 hours ago

        Well yeah, if you explain magic it stops being magic, that’s how magic is.

        Yes, it’s fundamentally something supernatural that can’t be explained. That’s what I’ve been saying in my first comment. So what are we arguing about?