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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheCosmicKid" data-source="post: 6936525" data-attributes="member: 6683613">What's the point of trying to explain magic as psychic phenomena? Psychic phenomena are magic. They have just as little basis in science as any other form of witchcraft or wizardry. So if you're building a world where psychic phenomena are real, why not just admit that magic is real?What's the difference between magic and technology here? After all, in our own world, our scientists explore the invisible laws and forces of the universe, describe them in theories, and exploit them to create wondrous technologies, but are blind to the whole picture (and regard it as a core scientific virtue to admit their ignorance openly). We just don't use the word "magic" to talk about electricity and radiation and chemical bonds and such, because we've got those other, more specific words. So if scientists in the science-fantasy universe are doing all these things, but don't use the word "magic", what exactly are they wrong or misguided about?</blockquote>