23/ That's a very loose, unpolished list of some of the ideas I'm trying to dig deeper on right now with primary and secondary research. There are some other interesting observations I have questions about that aren't really theories yet, as well.
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24/ Like #1: Language, writing, and metaphor being central to operation of magic somehow. George Lakoff's work on metaphors is relevant to this.
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25/ #2: The conclusions in the CIA studies and work by other highly educated and respected professionals concluding that some of these techniques work to produce outcomes.
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26/ #3: Possible explanations for why magic works inconsistently: http://jeksite.org/psi/jp03.htm #4: Emotionally resonant egregores of their time may serve as evocation entities: once Baal/Allah/Yahweh, now corps/movements/leaders? Chaos magic plays with this idea a lot
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27/ #5: Playing with identity may protect you from various dangers associated with getting into these weird mental states: ex. weird sun twitter shields you psychologically from attacks because you're constructing a fake identity as an ego shield, may hold elsewhere
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28/ #6: Why are mages obsessed with gathering books in pop culture and specfic? It's not actually because they're looking for spells, but they're looking for new ideas and symbols to cross reference to feed their ability to play with symbols necessary for outcomes
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29/ This is hard to explain, though, so instead we get a presentation of seeking spellbooks for new spells which is a dumbed-down and simplistic metaphor for this.
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30/ Lots of other interesting threads and ideas I haven't cobbled together into anything resembling a structure yet. I'm still very much trying to assemble a landscape of interesting concepts to decide where to go deeper first.
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31/ At this point, it's too early to share anything concrete because I have a lot more reading to do to test and harden some of these ideas. It's a very fuzzy picture I'm just beginning to explore. But there's something weird going on here.
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Replying to @liminal_warmth
Quantum mechanics says that minds influence the world by just observing it. Could it be that mind, consciousness, belief are a fundamental part of the universal fabric?
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thats not how quantum physics works at all "observation" is a thing random atoms do, it is done whenever any two things interact it has to do with probability amplitudes and interference effects and nothing to do with consciousness
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Replying to @imhinesmi @liminal_warmth
By the wave functions all possible quantum branches manifest, but we only see one right now. Why is that and why is this the one we see?
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Replying to @jack_meditates @liminal_warmth
complicated math reasons i dont understand particularly well but theres also the many worlds interpretation: we do, in fact, see all outcomes, but not in the same branch of reality
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