> In our history we've seen time and time again that humans will believe in magic and higher powers Indeed; and these days in tech circles it is the magic of a

> In our history we've seen time and time again that humans will believe in magic and higher powers Indeed; and these days in tech circles it is the magic of atoms (or strings, or whatever entities you like). The fact that physics by design makes no claims about objective existence of anything does not stop them from thinking that somehow all those entities (which are merely metaphors, ways to create models that are legible to our minds) must exist in some fundamentally objective sense; neither does the fact that we cannot directly access them other than via consciousness, or that the entire idea of empirical observation hinges on the existence of the observer. > Everything points to yet another physical thing that we'll hopefully understand and explain soon. It had been explained [away] already—since you appear to hold physicalism, you may also like illusionist theories of consciousness.