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, think…
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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. Campagna’s book is one of the more recent reads that impressed me with the author’s apparent familiarity with the borderland between consensus social reality and unfiltered perception.
Technic–I read the term as pointing to the synthetic, human-made material and conceptual artifacts that form framework of the modern human universe, while Magic–I read this term as the emergent force of life that dodges our attempts at articulating its nature but which ultimately gives…
From Ben's list on western culture’s distortions of reality.
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