Commonly, there exists a misconception that magical abilities inherently promote equality and fairness. This misguided belief often leads to the advocacy of increasing access to magic among political activists. That is incorrect. In fact, magic isn’t particularly covert in that it leaves a particular signature in stochastic and chaotic systems that can be measured and easily analyzed with machine learning, so a person could detect the influence of magic empirically without having to rely on intuition.
Magic doesn’t make things fair. Magic makes things unfair. Objectively and mathematically, fairness is randomness. Intuitively, we make things fair by making them random or chaotic. To be clear, randomness is not chaos and a lot of chaotic systems are not random. For example, to make things fair, people frequently flip a coin. Coin tosses appear to be random; however, they are chaotic. Though things like coin tosses are not random, there is a degree of uncertainty in it that appears to be intuitive enough for humans to use them as tools to make fair decisions.
Randomness is when the outcome is just as likely as another. We have randomness when all outcomes are equally likely. That connotes fairness. Magic is unfair because whenever we use magic to alter randomness, we are selecting and biasing the outcomes that we want in a probabilistic sphere where all outcomes are equally likely. This is cheating at games of chance, essentially. I call myself a sorcerer because my magic works by shifting probabilities. The etymology of the word sorcerer is:
“from Old French sorcerie, from sorcier “sorcerer, wizard,” from Medieval Latin sortiarius “teller of fortunes by lot; sorcerer,” literally “one who influences fate or fortune,”
Since my magic works through shifting possible futures and the “fate” of the system, I refer to my art as sorcery. Since my sorcery frequently uses Mathematics, Ontology, and Technology, my sorcery is also sufficient to be called thaumaturgy.
Sorcery is inconsistent with the idea of fairness because a sorcerer biases outcomes in their favor in a domain where the outcomes result in fairness by being random. Something is fair if it is random; therefore, if someone uses magic to alter the probabilities of random events, they are making it less fair and biased in their favor. Magic is not something that is intrinsically fair and equal since ordering randomness literally implies skewing things and creating deviations that make outcomes more or less likely to happen when originally the probability was equal. Sorcerers are really skilled at making things less fair and biased in their favor at their enemies’ expense.
When you change the probability of something, you change the probability of finding an ensemble of a physical system in a particular state. You change the configuration. Potential energy can be thought of as the energy that comes from how things are configured. Potential energy is the energy stored in an object due to its position or configuration relative to other objects. For example, gravitational potential energy arises from the position of an object relative to the Earth’s surface, while elastic potential energy arises from the deformation of an elastic object such as a spring. So, the way things are configured plays a role in determining the potential energy of a system.
The probability of a configuration occurring influences the potential energy of a configuration within the system. Lower potential energy configurations are more probable, as they correspond to more stable or favorable states of the system. So, when a magician shifts probabilities, they are shifting the energy of configurations. This implies that magic orders potential energy, which is used to cause a change. In this, magic is power. Magic is not fairness. Notice that I said lower energy states are more probable because they are more stable. Not only does a magician make events less fair when they use magic to shift probabilities, by making higher energy states more likely, they create unstable configurations. Since reality emerges from these configurations, and the universe is in a different state than it would have been, we can say reality is in a less stable state.
To say it a different way, the universe, on its own, seeks a lower energy and stable state. When a magician pushes events to their liking, they artificially force the universe into a higher energy state; ergo, the universe is in a less stable state. So, in addition to magic being unfair, it makes the world less stable.
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