Book description
We take for granted that only certain kind of things exist - electrons but not angels, passports but not nymphs. This is what we understand as 'reality'. But in fact, 'reality' varies with each era of the world, in turn shaping the field of what is possible to do, thinkā¦
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1 author picked Technic and Magic as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
My search to understand how I create a synthetic reality to live in took me into strange depths that turned out to be banal and obvious in hindsight. Campagnaās book is one of the more recent reads that impressed me with the authorās apparent familiarity with the borderland between consensus social reality and unfiltered perception.
TechnicāI read the term as pointing to the synthetic, human-made material and conceptual artifacts that form framework of the modern human universe, while MagicāI read this term as the emergent force of life that dodges our attempts at articulating its nature but which ultimately givesā¦
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