Meta-Magic
Fragments from imaginary dialogues
“What is meta-magic?”
“It’s a concept from my gaming past. More specifically from D&D (Dungeons&Dragons).
In the D&D multiverse, magic is a reality, which allows its practitioners to shape physical-reality through the casting of spells. Meta-magic is a higher-order level of magic that allows one to modify the properties of a spell.
For instance, some spells in D&D have a somatic component, they require some kind of body movement to be cast. Meta-magic allows one to ‘still’ a spell, that is, to cast it without its somatic component.
In the same way magic shapes physical-reality in D&D, language shapes our mental-reality.
Words have power. In a profound sense, language is magic.
Mental models are a higher-order level of meaning, a meta-language.
If language is magic, Models Thinking is the meta-magic.“
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