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its interesting people can reach this conclusion about things they dont believe in but not in the things they do the immune system is so intertwined with the psychosomatic its probably one of the biggest magical pills you can take (keynesian view of immunology etc.)
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There's a ton of strange 'power of mind' stuff that probably feels very much like magic, and might need to be approached in a frame of magic for it to work well (similarly how believing in jesus makes spiritual healing work better on you). But it's hard to strike a balance! 2/
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mm absolutely if theres a meta optimizer fixing things, they will resolve in seemingly intractable ways (otherwise we would have just surgically fixed them!)
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Chesterton's road if information is allowed to flow from one system to another, and you don't know what kind of information, chances are evolution figured it out and is using it maladaptive effects of removal possibly scale with bandwidth
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