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Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic

14 Dec 2024 - 14 Dec 2024
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    • A physical delight whose form recalls those educational books for children. So many of those, and how little do they prepare us for the dry and joyless texts of higher schooling.
    • The first part is an almost-wordless depiction of a tribe of hunters inventing art and thus magic. (And language, perhaps). Recalls the man-apes of 2001: A Space Odyssey but these are a bit more down the road to humanity. No monolith in this story, no outside agent. The title does a lot of work: In the Morning of the Mind
    • All art is magical at its inception, whereas magic is The Art itself.
    • The three magi as representing magic's submission to Christianity
    • In accordance with its own rules, science must deem consciousness unreal, but this is not our daily experience.
    • Science as excluding consciousness (because non-repeatable). Want to quibble with this, but why, it's largely correct.
      • Contra: the Minsky attitude that consciousness is just not that big a deal, its just kind of a fiction we tell ourselves (or is that the Buddhist view).
    • Might it be useful, without contravening any of the laws of commonsense or physics, to suggest that mind and matter are both real, but in completely different ways?
      • Oh I been saying this.