Comment on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 16, chapter 85

Fri, 04 May 2012 00:58:46 GMT

Unless MoR is going to include an explanation of how magic is implemented in terms of known (or new and deeper) laws of physics, Harry might as well not be made of atoms. After all, modern technology conveniently doesn't work near magic so we can't investigate the matter...

Which should Harry believe at this point: that the Ultimate Law is better described as fundamentally Muggle physics with a Source of Magic built on top; or that the Ultimate Law is an alien, magical, human-intuition-confirming system where someone once cast a big spell that specified the Muggle laws of physics? Hell, if the existence of magic is actively erased from the minds of Muggles, maybe we shouldn't put too much trust in the Muggle evidence for the natural evolution of humans, or for the age of the world.

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