I have been working on a long-running thesis of sorts, and I think I have captured it:
Magic isn’t “real,” but it works by being simulated through language on human minds. Computers aren’t human minds, but they simulate them.
… Magic works on computers?
I’m missing something.
I think minds are like antennas? Or portals? They are gates between the object works and the thought works, where the two can influence each other.
There are other such gates as well.
Are you saying Minds are sort of like the proverbial wizards staff, the actuators and catalysts of Magic?
— ŚpåçēŠłüg (@spaceslugalpha) July 26, 2021
It’s not a directional graph but sort of a parallel substrate.
maybe, magic works on Turing machines, and minds and computers are both Turing machines
— 🎭 (@deepfates) July 26, 2021
This sums it up nicely. The next step is something like, knowing how to do magic and thinking about magical causality gives you tools for dealing with computers.
And the smarter they get, the more arcane these skills will be valuable.
Prompt engineering has a lot in common with the classic demon invocation, for example. You have to be very careful with your words.