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 No.125237

i could never get myself to believe anything like magic or astrology or chakra or whatnot because it all seemed to originate from anthrocentric delusion but now i am interested because you guys seem kind of smart. im still stuck on how nobody is ever clear or consistent on the mechanisms of these phenomenon so i cant shake my skepticism much harder than i already have.

any schizo wizards wanna help an amateur scientist out? i really am genuinely interested and am not here to be a retard and shit up the board

 No.125247

>>125237

It's not exactly science, because there is no "detached" observer of the world. Just like you're a vital part of you typing at a keyboard, you're a vital part of every magical "experiment". The point is to use the ritual/visualisation/focus exercises etc, to obtain "limial" perceptions and modes of acting upon the world. These may be used to produce tangible results, but unless you find specific people that are "built" like you, it's very hard for anyone else to replicate "your" results. Magic is not for everyone . Then again, neither is advanced mathematics.

It's basically the difference between trying to build a telescope, and trying to grow a new kind of eyes. What I find is many people dismiss this on purely theoretical reasons. They don't look at their perceptions themselves, they have a rigid model : "oh this was just my neurons firing randomly, that can't mean anything". "People are just clumps of atoms" .Unless they learn to put aside their "theoretical" prejudices and allow themselves to perceive, they can't learn anything.

>nobody is ever clear or consistent on the mechanisms of these phenomenon

Yeah, rationalization sucks. But truth is, they don't need to be. They just need to produce workable results. When it comes down to it, we still don't have any idea on how basic perception works. How "reals" translate to "feels". You have an object that entangles with a photon that entangles with an ocular receptor that entangles with your neurons, and somewhere in all this mess is also you perceiving a thing. Hard-line materialists tell that because there are neural signals when we act, the signals cause us to act. But that only establishes correlation, they're two sides of the same coin.


 No.125249

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>>125247

>These may be used to produce tangible results, but unless you find specific people that are "built" like you, it's very hard for anyone else to replicate "your" results. Magic is not for everyone . Then again, neither is advanced mathematics.

that may be so, but you can always demonstrate advanced "traditional" concepts to normalfags even without them understanding it. for example, most normalfags don't know why the rate of acceleration due to gravity at sea level is always -9.806…m/s^2, but you can show it to them that an object will always fall at that rate. you can't do the same with magic, there are no diagrams to draw or fundamental interactions to elucidate, it's always been "just because". that's what i don't understand, not that people aren't consistent with fringe topics, but that fringe topics themselves are not consistent with themselves.

>Unless they learn to put aside their "theoretical" prejudices and allow themselves to perceive, they can't learn anything.

but anon, what would that entail? what separates dropping the scientific method, and just believing everything altogether? psychics have been very very easily made fools of, parapsychologists can never seem to actually get anywhere past their convoluted hypotheses, etc. etc. i don't get it…

>You have an object that entangles with a photon that entangles with an ocular receptor that entangles with your neurons, and somewhere in all this mess is also you perceiving a thing. Hard-line materialists tell that because there are neural signals when we act, the signals cause us to act. But that only establishes correlation, they're two sides of the same coin.

what makes "lol its just particles and waves bro" so unbelievable, however? it has already been demonstrated that we can simulate a microscopic worm's brain cells on a computer and even make it run around inside a robot body, what makes humans (or anything at all) so special that they are different from worms in this regard?


 No.125251

>>125249

>but anon, what would that entail? what separates dropping the scientific method, and just believing everything altogether?

One thing and one thing only. Practice precedes theory. All advances are made when someone disregards a piece of the theory in the face of new data. When you learn to focus on perceptions, you disregard rationalizations on what they "should" be. It is what it is.

https://bit._ly/2ORB3Fp (shortened links are not allowed on 8ch)

There are tribes of bushmen possessing telepath-like abilities. Animals also see a far "sharper" world than we do. For them most part we humans mainly live inside our heads. Our world is a fabricated one.

>we can simulate a microscopic worm's brain cells

A worm can change into something new, given enough time. A computer model stays the same. Even the space of variations is fixed. But the computer simulates the worm well enough for intended purposes.

We're not looking for small-scale simulations. Nor are we looking for illusions of omniscience by generalizing from a small amount of data.

We're looking for perceptual anomalies to expand for "fun and profit". The end goal of "magic" is to create a man who's intuitive and perceptual abilities match his rational ones. See also >>103095 . There's no denying that some are just "better" at it than others. If we want to make this man "repeatable" , some form of eugenics is required. Otherwise, it will just remain the domain of outcasts, all perceiving that there is a world "slightly larger" than the normal one, but none perceiving enough of the same world to form a coherent indisputable system.


 No.125255

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>>125251

>One thing and one thing only. Practice precedes theory. All advances are made when someone disregards a piece of the theory in the face of new data. When you learn to focus on perceptions, you disregard rationalizations on what they "should" be. It is what it is.

that's what the scientific method basically is, though. pretend you know nothing, then assemble your observations into a tentative model for how you can expect things in the universe to work.

>shortened links are not allowed on 8ch

why didn't you post the full link then?

>There are tribes of bushmen possessing telepath-like abilities.

sauce

>Animals also see a far "sharper" world than we do.

elaborate, please?

>For them most part we humans mainly live inside our heads. Our world is a fabricated one.

this is not incorrect, but doesn't really say anything bigger than itself.

>A worm can change into something new, given enough time.

lolwut? do you mean evolution?

>A computer model stays the same.

not really, if you've ever used YouTube you know this is absolutely not true

>We're looking for perceptual anomalies to expand for "fun and profit".

I'm interested. Tell me more, please.

>The end goal of "magic" is to create a man who's intuitive and perceptual abilities match his rational ones.

what does this mean?

>all perceiving that there is a world "slightly larger" than the normal one, but none perceiving enough of the same world to form a coherent indisputable system.

this is an interesting hypothesis and i can't say i'm not half convinced


 No.125256

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Mundane fags with muh "science" and the "skeptical" mindset… Getting your head out of your ass is a good start.

These bitch ass threads every 3 days,starting to get boring.


 No.125257

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>>125256

nigger why don't you jump off a cliff and come back to tell us how much science is incorrect then?




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