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A comment on Aristotle's Lost Book on Magic (2018).

Re:Aristotle's Lost Book on Magic (2018) by ctdonath on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @08:50PM (#23923111)
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Clarke may have enunciated it, but Aristotle may have been first to recognize it.

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Re:Aristotle's Lost Book on Magic (2018) by ARandomerDude on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @11:52PM (#23924010)
> Aristotle may have been first to recognize it

It's truly amazing how many concepts fit that description.

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