“When you can sing things into existence, you’re deeply connected to the nature of existence.”
I think you’re reading too much into it. A medieval peasant would gawk at an electric light.
To clarify my earlier comment: The major disconnect is between things we’ve already studied and things we haven’t, not between reality and unreality. If, tomorrow, we discovered a new combination of EM fields that could remotely levitate random objects, it would qualify as amazing new magic- even though it’s based off of well-understood theories and nobody’s written a book about it. Telling people that reality is just as amazing as magic won’t work in the long-term, even if they are identical on some calibrated amazingness metric, because people quickly get bored with things they have too much experience with. The trick is to find things within reality that we haven’t heard about before, and there are certainly plenty of those.
“When you can sing things into existence, you’re deeply connected to the nature of existence.”
I think you’re reading too much into it. A medieval peasant would gawk at an electric light.
To clarify my earlier comment: The major disconnect is between things we’ve already studied and things we haven’t, not between reality and unreality. If, tomorrow, we discovered a new combination of EM fields that could remotely levitate random objects, it would qualify as amazing new magic- even though it’s based off of well-understood theories and nobody’s written a book about it. Telling people that reality is just as amazing as magic won’t work in the long-term, even if they are identical on some calibrated amazingness metric, because people quickly get bored with things they have too much experience with. The trick is to find things within reality that we haven’t heard about before, and there are certainly plenty of those.