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- From: jeckenbe@sloth.Reed.Edu (Judah Michael Eckenberg)
- Subject: Re: The method of Science, the aim of Religion
- References: <1jmoreINNbv8@SUNED.ZOO.CS.YALE.EDU>
- Sender: news@reed.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 08:24:33 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.082433.6291@reed.edu>
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- As a physics major who is very interested in magick, I can
- sympathize with the desire to quantify the effects of magick. I think
- that one of the problems with producing statistical results from magick is
- the possibly quantum nature of magic. If magick does indeed operate at
- the quantum level, then our belief (our interaction) in the phenomena will
- effect the observed results. In quantum effects there is no "objectivity"
- and so you get no "objective" results. Most, I would say, scientists do
- not believe in magick, and therefore do not see it. For more ideas on the
- possible quantum nature of the mind and magick, see Liber Kaos by Peter J.
- Carroll and the Emperors New Mind, by Roger Penrose.
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- Judah Eckenberg
- Reed College jeckenbe@reed.edu
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