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September 30, 2026 — Flushing Out the Fabulists
The history of science and tech is at some level a history of fabulists — people who imbued new technologies with magical powers of one sort or another, and others who dethroned the magicians and seers with empirical evidence. Now, physicists are actively asking if freewill is an illusion, and if the laws of physics are so deterministic that our consciousnesses are themselves an illusion.
Now, we’re using technology to make new forms of what looks like consciousness to reassert some magic into our world.
Information technology and religion merged early on, with “book religions” expanded by…
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