RE: If sufficiently advanced techology is indistinguishable from magic...
May 10, 2013 at 4:21 pm
(May 10, 2013 at 4:17 pm)John V Wrote: If sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, then sufficiently advanced technology and magic are the same thing.
Not true. Magic, by definition, is a supernatural occurrence. It would be something against the laws of physics. Sufficiently developed technology just looks that way to those who don't know of the technology
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― Christopher Hitchens
"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject". - George Santayana
"If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed". - George Carlin