sucky magic. Well until we have transporters and replicators.
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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.
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.
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.
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?