[jamesrcole]

> going off of Arthur C Clarke's definition, life is magic. And we're trying to create something equally magical.

I assume you're referring to his "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"? If so, you're misrepresenting it, because he's clearly saying it's not magic, it just appears that way to the unadvanced. And there's a big difference between "appears to be" and "is".

[ramblerman]

But we are the unadvanced on this matter, so it's magic.

Also 'appears to be' != 'indistinguishable', the latter is far closer to 'is' imo.

[jamesrcole]

The quote is about something seeming a certain way when we don't understand it, not about it actually being that way. It is not saying the thing itself is literally indistinguishable from magic. Anyone who understood the thing (eg an advanced alien race who created a technology far beyond our current capabilities) would not see it as magic, and would know that it isn't magic.