
Episode 42: It's time to stop quoting Clarke's Third Law
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The Science of Magic Isn't Science, Right?
Scientization of magic is intended to make magic more comprehensible. But it kind of bites us in the ass in a weird way, cause if we start saying that the two things are indistinguishable, right? It's not just about sort of undermining the wondrousness of magic, it's also about undermining the rationality of other kinds of systems, right? Because it just opens the door to anything being quoton quot science. And i there are so many social systems in te world and natural systems that we actually can use science, or social science, such as it is, to understand.
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