I once told a friend of mine that I'm agnostic about quantum physics because we can't see it or feel it with our own senses and we have to use elaborate rituals conducted by a special class of people who say "we have the esoteric knowledge to interpret all of this" and that that's not that different than religious belief.
He got mad at me.
@MLE_online perhaps a key difference between a religious belief and what you describe is that you *can* attain the understanding if you want to, following a method that's pretty rigorous. Of course that takes a whole lot of work on your part to get there.
But yeah, you hit on Clarke's, "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic".
Emily Velasco
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