99.99% of magic systems in fiction can be chalked up to sufficiently advanced technology indistinguishable from nature. Magic is always far too convenient or far too constructed. Artificial. The variables and parameters are too much.

Fantasy is more advanced than science fiction proper. The more advanced and sophisticated something is, the smaller it becomes. Computers once took up whole rooms. What if technology eventually becomes indistinguishable from nature? What happens when nature takes shape in ways evolution wouldn’t originally allow for? What if evolution -wasn’t- a blind idiot and didn’t cause evolutionary dead ends or bottlenecks? What if nature responded to your actions? What if it entertained religion? Human sacrifice?

Consider that AI is much less complex than biological life and can still absolutely wreck the best humans at chess. Extend it to hypothetically biologically supported technology and you’ve just created a true fucking monster.

Fantasy is more advanced than science fiction. The more advanced and sophisticated something is, the smaller it becomes. Computers once took up whole rooms. What if technology eventually becomes indistinguishable from nature? What happens when nature takes shape in ways evolution wouldn’t originally allow for? What if evolution -wasn’t- a blind idiot and didn’t cause evolutionary dead ends or bottlenecks? What if nature responded to your actions? What if it entertained religion? Human sacrifice?

Consider that AI is much less complex than biological life and can still absolutely wreck the best humans at chess. Extend it to hypothetically biologically supported technology and you’ve just created a true fucking monster.