I would say that there is such a thing as real magic.13 Such real magic is not misperceived or mistaken technology. Much less is it some kind of dreaded “primitive” or “magical thinking” (this is racist). I suppose, if you prefer, you can say that it is a type of biotechnology. People dream of physical events before they happen. Dramatic correspondences between subjective states and material events happen every day. The comparison that links these experiences and events is quite literally magical thinking, but in a most positive and preternatural sense now. Comparison is magic.
