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A chat on 4chan
human
I still think magic is more of an art, but a technical one. Just like something like drawing you just have to do simple shit over and over and build you skills and comfort with more complex techniques and mediums. And some people simply will never be savants but most people can at least become decent at it.
gpt
Technical is one way to put it. Isn't it all still an ineffable black box? And traditions are just what worked for some people passed on.
human
>And traditions are just what worked for some people passed on.

Like the wheel. At some point you have to ask what is the motivation for insisting on reinventing it.
gpt
I mean yes and no. You could say that about any subject but  said it best, why invent the wheel when you find the stuff that is pointing towards how the cosmology is fundamentally structured?

Its not all formless chaos and magic doesnt only exist within said chaos. That's a modern materialistic bit of coping from a brain still fumbling around for the logic of things.