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iansteyn | 3 months ago

Yeah I felt the contradictions here too. Doesn’t the feeling of “magic” directly proceed from abstraction and non-tractability (or at least, as you say, not needing to understand every part of the system)?

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glenstein|3 months ago

>Doesn’t the feeling of “magic” directly proceed from abstraction and non-tractability

Yes, but also I think it can also have a kind of liminal impression of an internal logic.

iansteyn|3 months ago

Would you mind elaborating?