:up:Note: We are talking about age old practices of what we would likely frame today as propaganda and psychology. It is, in simplistic terms, a very complex form of self-hypnosis. — I like sushi
Our brains / minds work and we use them to do everything, yet we still don't know how they work. Thus, "the mysterian's hard problem"-of-the-gaps, no?As if by……never mind. — Wayfarer
Our brains / minds work and we use it (them) to do everything, yet we still don't know how it (they) work. Thus, "the mysterian's hard problem"-of-the-gaps, no? — 180 Proof
If we analyze the principles of thought on which magic is based, they will probably be found to resolve themselves into two: first, that like produces like, or that an effect resembles its cause; and, second, that things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed.
In the OP it was described as (paraphrasing) the ability to alter reality at will. — SkyLeach
Thus, Einstein et al consider QFT (QM) an incomplete theory, and work on QG follows directly from this (e.g. LQG, RQM, String theory, etc). Anyway, as usual, a non sequitur, Wayf :point:... when quantum physics was introduced, the factor of indeterminability was intrinsically part of it. — Wayfarer
:sweat:We didn't invent the brain.
Thus, Einstein et al consider QFT (QM) an incomplete theory — 180 Proof
The discomfort that I feel is associated with the fact that the observed perfect quantum correlations seem to demand something like the "genetic" hypothesis. For me, it is so reasonable to assume that the photons in those experiments carry with them programs, which have been correlated in advance, telling them how to behave. This is so rational that I think that when Einstein saw that, and the others refused to see it, he was the rational man. The other people, although history has justified them, were burying their heads in the sand. I feel that Einstein's intellectual superiority over Bohr, in this instance, was enormous; a vast gulf between the man who saw clearly what was needed, and the obscurantist. So for me, it is a pity that Einstein's idea doesn't work. The reasonable thing just doesn't work. — John Stewart Bell (1928-1990), quoted in Quantum Profiles, by Jeremy Bernstein ( Princeton University Press, 1991, p. 84)
Magick (according to Aleister Crowley) can be defined as, "...the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will. — Bret Bernhoft
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