My guess is the brain turns out to be simpler than we expect and most of the magic is in the fabric of reality (various fields, etc)
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this registers to me as a very dangerous belief, i have like 'ahhh quarantine this' feelings around it
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dangerous bc it implies humans aren't fundamentally special?
Maybe evidence for not dangerous is humans tried to hold the belief "we aren't animals, animals and humans are fundamentally different" for most of our history but recently accepted it and it changed almost nothing
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oh no, i don't think humans are fundamentally special; i mean it's dangerous in that i think it's already very easy for people to project things about themselves into the world; being like 'it's not my brain, im just reading true energy' gives a lot of leeway for destruction
(this is why i think the belief is 'bad'; i also think it's wrong)
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like, a great example of 'no the magic isn't in our brains it's around us' ends up 'bad' is the leverage intention document
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If the brain is simple, but its interaction with the environment is complex, does it place the locus of control outside the brain? May be not. Computers, simple machines that create magic, were for a long time thought be be good only for "numbers".
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The belief that "the brain is too complex to be understood" does seem analogous to the belief that "humans are too special to be animals". Our brains may be simple computers rendering the world around us as complex ever changing VR, perhaps mostly for our own "entertainment".
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Interesting to think how scientific theories, true or false, accidentally serve mythological roles, and perhaps not good ones.