Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work?
okamiueru@lemmy.world 1 week agoIsn’t it always different things? “Magic” being a different set of rules for how the world works. Technology being the things that can be achieved given the rules. And, whether advanced technology is influenced and how, depend on those rules.
If for example magic is only available to some people with the ability or what not. Technology will always be available regardless.
scarabic@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Stargate SG-1 is a great example where no matter what the magic is, it’s eventually revealed to be technology underneath - just really advanced technology. If you take all limits off science, it’s easy for the two to begin blending. They even do the “only available to some people” thing as technology: certain people share a gene with the ancient ancestors who made the high-technology, and so it recognizes and activates for them and not others.
okamiueru@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Hm. I was thinking of the problem in terms of “what is”, and not so much “what it looks like”. SG-1 is a good example, where the argument is that there is no actual magic. Its “sufficiently advanced = looks like magic” not “… = magic”.
I interpreted the question to consider actual existence of magic. So, I suppose it hinges on how “magic” is actually defined. Where I thought it would be some kind of forces / manipulation of energy that is manipulated by will or tools. Hm… I suppose this is a lot more nuanced.