You’re reading waaaaay too much into it. I am at least 99% confident, even after reading what you wrote, that Eliezer was not intending anything remotely like what you suggest. (I suppose there’s, let’s say, a 10% chance that he had some analogy between the Mirror and human minds in view. But “such-and-such an artefact, in a story about magic, has such-and-such magic powers” is not any sort of licence for assuming that everything the artefact can be analogized to has the same magic powers.
Consider: Any number of authors have written stories in which magical things stand in for the power of imagination. They aren’t making a coded claim that your imagination can work magic, they are making a not-so-coded claim that your imagination can do something that is like magic. And we already know that Eliezer thinks human minds can do non-magical things that are like magic in a useful sense.
So, I think: probably (p=0.75) Eliezer didn’t intend the Mirror to be a symbol of human minds generally, but if he did (p=0.25) then almost certainly (p>0.99) what he intended was something more like that “Mundane Magic” post (see the section headed “The Ultimate Power”), and in any case nothing to do with the “Law of Intention”.
You’re reading waaaaay too much into it. I am at least 99% confident, even after reading what you wrote, that Eliezer was not intending anything remotely like what you suggest. (I suppose there’s, let’s say, a 10% chance that he had some analogy between the Mirror and human minds in view. But “such-and-such an artefact, in a story about magic, has such-and-such magic powers” is not any sort of licence for assuming that everything the artefact can be analogized to has the same magic powers.
Consider: Any number of authors have written stories in which magical things stand in for the power of imagination. They aren’t making a coded claim that your imagination can work magic, they are making a not-so-coded claim that your imagination can do something that is like magic. And we already know that Eliezer thinks human minds can do non-magical things that are like magic in a useful sense.
So, I think: probably (p=0.75) Eliezer didn’t intend the Mirror to be a symbol of human minds generally, but if he did (p=0.25) then almost certainly (p>0.99) what he intended was something more like that “Mundane Magic” post (see the section headed “The Ultimate Power”), and in any case nothing to do with the “Law of Intention”.
[EDITED to fix a trivial typo.]