> In every culture, in every era, people have usually been pretty sure they had everything figured out, and that they understood life and the world completely.

> In every culture, in every era, people have usually been pretty sure they had everything figured out, and that they understood life and the world completely. I don't think anyone here believes they have everything figured out. > I don't believe our present time is any more enlightened in this matter than any other. I think we're slowly getting better over time, as our collective knowledge compounds as time goes. > Also it seems to me that you keep using the word 'magic' as a weasel word You made a claim that a 'choice/decision' is not necessarily a physical process, I don't know how else I should interpret that.