I don't think that magic is indistinguishable from very advanced technology. Maybe from a worm-like perspective it is not.
Magic is opposite to technology.
“Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor — but they have few followers now.”
“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.”
- Arthur C. Clarke
Edit: magic is a dawn, science and technology is a dusk. In Chinese philosophy, magic would be wood, science would be metal - this is the analogy based on the very nature of the two. The interesting question would be: so what is the fire and what is the water? Fire is alchemy. Water is mystery. Fire doesn't understand water, metal doesn't understand wood; science doesn't understand magic.
BTW Chinese says that water kills fire, and metal kills wood. How true. We indeed live in very yin (dark) times nowadays - it's called kaliyuga.
However, bear in mind that fire kills metal.
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