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What is mystical to follow a procedure? And even breaking a big nut with a stone is an "action that we could never do with our biological bodies".

Currently it is more esoteric on how a baby (human but not only) is formed than how we build a microprocessor. So if anything I would say we are statistical acrobats, existing despite the numerous approximations in biology. Compared to us humans, microprocessors are predictable and boring.

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The mysticism is an emergent property of sufficiently complex and "obfuscated" procedures... No intelligent entity can lay claim to an omnipotent and perfected understanding of all known procedures... The fragments between silos of rational derivations of existing predicated truths we have discovered about the natural order of the universe is where it feels more like an enchantment than a discovery.

I strongly disagree around how forming a baby is amore esoteric.. cell mitosis is a pretty well understood science at this point and eventually we will reach a hard limit of covering all the surface area of that domain of knowledge. However technological discoveries unfold more like a fractal.. it isn't really a bounded domain as far as we know.

I wish to have a beer with you or join your matrix or something. Rarely do I run into minds like yours.

> What is mystical to follow a procedure?

This is how science destroys wonder instead of inspiring it.

What is mystical is the fact that you exist in the first place, plus everything else. It’s all far out and enchanting.

You think so? For me personally, there's few things that are more inspiring than understanding something and being able to reproduce it. This for me is the wonder of science.

The tech stack is possible because each individual part is (relatively) predictable and boring (when used within parameters).

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