a stage magician creates an illusion by exploiting our inductive biases to create and then expose a gap between our simulacrum and reality. magic more generally is techniques that play with our simulacra vs reality; we can do rituals to adjust our priors, we can create…
this keeps popping up in my thoughts though idk what to make of it yet https://x.com/mimi10v3/status/1867025244000583987