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Dian Fay • Edited

Magic as conceived in a particular children's book exists in a universe where complexity is kind of a solved problem. Magic as conceived and practiced over the course of human history is itself an attempt to grapple with complexities beyond ordinary understanding and control: health, weather, politics, closeness with the divine.

Aleister Crowley defined magick-with-a-k as 'the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will', and explicitly included such arcane works as banking and potato-growing. Programming is not so different.