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Po-kwai believes that our ancestors collapsed the universe … but if the reverse were true – if the twentieth-century creators of quantum mechanics didn’t so much discover the laws of the microscopic world, as bring them into being – would we even know the difference?
Chaos magic teaches that the essence of magic is that perceptions are conditioned by beliefs, and the world as we perceive can be changed by deliberately changing those beliefs. [11] Chaos magicians subsequently treat belief as a tool, often creating their own idiosyncratic magical systems and frequently borrowing from other magical traditions, religious movements, popular culture and various strands of philosophy.
Chaos Magic - Wikipedia
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Physical systems also compute, but they usually have more kinds of parts and are noisy, meaning that mistakes are common and precise outcomes are often not predictable in detail even when the rules are known.
The Engine of Complexity
John Hollenbeck and John Mayfield
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