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YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I dunno where I heard this but

“Any phenomenon that you cannot comprehend, is indistinguishable from magic.”

Imagine trying to explain electricity to a society that has both copper and magnets. You would be a legit wizard if you could make a spark.

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lauha@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Clarke’s three laws, referring to Arthur C. Clarke.

The laws are:

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's_three_laws
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- YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Thank you!
  
  There’s actually a very cool philosophical argument that we are actually creating new fundamental rules of the universe by studying them. Simulation theory maybe? Dunno how much stock I put into it, but it’s kinda cool to think about.
  
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  - Deme@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    That would imply that the phenomena behave differently over time as the rules are refined, wouldn’t it?
    
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