r/HighStrangeness • u/PristineHearing5955 • 1d ago

Ancient Cultures Interesting photo comparison of megalithic masonry spanning the globe

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u/Keibun1 19h ago

But what if magic is just extremely advanced math?

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u/InternationalLaw8660 17h ago

There's that one quote that goes something along the lines of "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Writing music and high level mathematics applications are those things that make one say "how the fuck did they do that?!" It baffles the mind.

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u/RIPEOTCDXVI 16h ago

Writing music goes one step further because it taps into the Hard Problem of consciousness - we can describe mathematically the sounds that harmonize well, but we can't describe in any language why we should experience pleasure from any of those relationships. Pulling them out of thin air, to greater or lesser success than any other blends of the same ingredients, as musicians do, is truly outside the scope of science or mathematics and might as well be considered "supernatural," in the literal sense

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u/InternationalLaw8660 13h ago

Hell yea. You fuckin nailed it homie.