{"id":46,"date":"2008-03-18T23:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/indistinguishab\/"},"modified":"2008-03-18T23:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T23:11:00","slug":"indistinguishab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/language\/indistinguishab\/","title":{"rendered":"Indistinguishable from Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/articles\/pto-20080225-000003.html\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/03\/17\/matrix150.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=150,height=114,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"76\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Matrix150\" title=\"Matrix150\" src=\"https:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/blog\/images\/2008\/03\/17\/matrix150.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMagical thinking&#8211;typically considered an archaic mode of cognition that populates the world with animistic forces, hidden dimensions, and evocative incantations&#8211;may actually serve us well in the future as we navigate an existence increasingly mediated by digital information.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/brainstorm\/200803\/the-internet-nobody-knows-youre-god\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full post at Brainstorm.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But there are several cases where we&#8217;ve already jumped the gun in attributing powers to our tech toys.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/brainstorm\/200803\/ask-igod\" target=\"_blank\">Read about this, too, at Brainstorm.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magical thinking&#8211;typically considered an archaic mode of cognition that populates the world with animistic forces, hidden dimensions, and evocative incantations&#8211;may actually serve us well in the future as we navigate an existence increasingly mediated by digital information. Read the full post at Brainstorm. But there are several cases where we&#8217;ve already jumped the gun in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3,34,48,40,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-language","category-mind-brain","category-religion","category-science","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}