Vladimir_Nesov comments on Parapsychology: the control group for science - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 07 December 2009 05:48:27AM *  8 points [-]

Real world is uncaring, unsupervised. Magic is not just about the world being "complex", it's about the world containing mechanisms targeting specifically humans, and understanding the situation much like a human would. Being "deterministic" doesn't preclude anything, it's more of a way of seeing things than the way things are.