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This was a recording of a public presentation given at the DISI conference, which was mostly STEM people.
Azande, fifth cause. Things happen for reasons. I don't believe this because I am a modern, oh well,
Agonizing Aristotelianism ugh
Meaning is not in here or out there because the boundary is illusory – yes that's good. Somehow it implies magic is a thing – not sure how that works
Inventing dichotomies – the contintentals do this all the time (Bergson, Deleuze)
Aleister Crowley – all concepts below the abyss are to be opposed.
Mentions Laws of Form
Magic pings the ? like sonar
Plato's hidden mysticism
Wound up with a plea for the reality of weird phenomena against the crushing modernist materialism. As usual. Sigh. I do not understand what these guys think that "the reality of supernatural phenomena" buys them.