Sorry, but an addendum: Another way to view it would be as attention capture. Any form of informational exchange can be regarded as attention capture (that is, if you are reading this, and truly digesting the contents, I have captured your attention). So on an extremely basic level, any form of attention capture is magic.
That said, it's magic at its most basic. It does not employ, for example, the more esoteric correspondences of ritual high magic (for Catholics, something like the Mass, or Communion, for example, in which myths have been ingested over years in the audience, and then are "activated" through gestures and symbols).
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Date: 2022-01-10 03:32 pm (UTC)That said, it's magic at its most basic. It does not employ, for example, the more esoteric correspondences of ritual high magic (for Catholics, something like the Mass, or Communion, for example, in which myths have been ingested over years in the audience, and then are "activated" through gestures and symbols).