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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sir Whiskers" data-source="post: 1603405" data-attributes="member: 6941">If I understand your post, then anything that is sufficiently complex and mysterious can be compared to magic. So planetary ecologies are similar to magic. Weather. Social dynamics. Chaos theory. Pretty much anything which works, but is so arcane that only a few people truly understand it can be compared to "magic". But that only works if one defines "magic" as anything that only a few people truly understand. IOW, a circular definition.Also, from reading the posts from others, it should be clear that "magic" means different things to different people. There are a lot of unstated assumptions in Clarke's saying - remove those assumptions and it no longer works.</blockquote>