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Originally Posted by alex_d
"Any technology that is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic" is just a meaningless, irrelevant sentence.
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Let us not forget the many who attach firm credence to causation of the metaphysical variety.
Engineers use oscilloscopes. A signal can be displayed as referenced to ground (DC mode), or referenced only to itself (AC mode). In our thinking we like to believe we are reasoning from fundamentals -- that we operate in DC mode. In actuality our logical systems cannot define themselves and we are forever denied the comfort of objective reality.
We are fundamentally AC. Behaviorists show that any of us are subject to the development of "superstitious behaviors" that derive from causal chains that are not consciously examined. Though the operations of the brain derive their workings from the laws of physics, the brain's end results are not representative of any absolutes.