"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke
Anything that can be managed in soft science series would easily apply to Trinity Blood so his teleportation becomes molecular deconstruction and reformation via the self-directed equivalent of StarTreck’s transporter pads, the shadow business is also similar as is the forming of his ‘pets’. He can make as big a show of esotericism as he likes but in a world where we get detailed descriptions of the fact that anaerobic bacteria are the reason why Radu can throw fireballs or nanomachines that eat other nanomachines there really doesn’t seem to be much room for magic. Not that that would discount the possibility that it could be magic that Isaak was deliberately being over the top about so that people would believe that it was technology, and certainly there does seem to be something of an issue with the public thinking that magic is possible much to the annoyance of the Inquisition who define that belief as heresy.
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong." (Clark’s 1st Law) And more importantly Asimov’s corollary in regards to my last point: "When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervor and emotion -- the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all, probably right."
I don't know, I'm speaking as a complete ignorant of esoterism and such, but does a machine still helds the faculty of wield such advaced magic?
I took a break to laugh here because I’ve often described one Golden Dawn manual as looking like a geometry textbook threw up over a printing press so when it comes to the mathematics part I don’t expect being a machine would cause him any problems. Then again when it comes to spiritual progression it would depend on whether or not he has some kind of self-awareness/central essence of self. There’s a Japanese concept, I believe it is, of the ghost in the machine where every object or system has some basic energy to it so you could imply that the more complex the system the more likely it is to have the self-awareness that we might term a soul.
The hair theory may well be influenced by something I wrote (http://imperial-artist.livejournal.com/361971.html) quite some time ago really.
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Date: 2009-10-17 06:24 pm (UTC)- Arthur C. Clarke
Anything that can be managed in soft science series would easily apply to Trinity Blood so his teleportation becomes molecular deconstruction and reformation via the self-directed equivalent of StarTreck’s transporter pads, the shadow business is also similar as is the forming of his ‘pets’. He can make as big a show of esotericism as he likes but in a world where we get detailed descriptions of the fact that anaerobic bacteria are the reason why Radu can throw fireballs or nanomachines that eat other nanomachines there really doesn’t seem to be much room for magic. Not that that would discount the possibility that it could be magic that Isaak was deliberately being over the top about so that people would believe that it was technology, and certainly there does seem to be something of an issue with the public thinking that magic is possible much to the annoyance of the Inquisition who define that belief as heresy.
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong." (Clark’s 1st Law)
And more importantly Asimov’s corollary in regards to my last point:
"When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervor and emotion -- the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all, probably right."
I don't know, I'm speaking as a complete ignorant of esoterism and such, but does a machine still helds the faculty of wield such advaced magic?
I took a break to laugh here because I’ve often described one Golden Dawn manual as looking like a geometry textbook threw up over a printing press so when it comes to the mathematics part I don’t expect being a machine would cause him any problems. Then again when it comes to spiritual progression it would depend on whether or not he has some kind of self-awareness/central essence of self. There’s a Japanese concept, I believe it is, of the ghost in the machine where every object or system has some basic energy to it so you could imply that the more complex the system the more likely it is to have the self-awareness that we might term a soul.
The hair theory may well be influenced by something I wrote (http://imperial-artist.livejournal.com/361971.html) quite some time ago really.