At any given time whatever the human consciousness encompasses might be an individual’s world view tuning into the universe, whatever the universe is. Since it’s probably an unlikely task for our bio-nets to tune into all things at once, chances are we are all looking at some infinitesimal snapshot of our interpreted world views, and definitely probably not in the collective sense of agreeing what we are all seeing or witnessing. I think when cops are interviewing witnesses to some event that there could be differences in witness testimonies up to the number of witnesses interviewed. That can happen, it’s not magic, it’s us dredging up what we think has happened.

So when anyone witnesses magic one explanation could be the absence of learned information about the magic. One quote is the sci-fi writer by Arthur C. Clarke: “Magic’s just science that we don’t understand yet.” Another idea is witnessing magic could be like in WW2 when large iron birds came to remote islands with food on board and the locals thought them to be Gods. I forget the name of this syndrome but it’s easy to assume some higher being when witnessing something that makes absolutely no sense.

Thinking about it, there’s lots of stuff nobody believed as little as 400 years ago, that is now believed by masses of people today. Randomly choosing some 400 years ago, God was probably the explanatory cause of many things. Fortunately, even in these modern times, (forgetting about edicts from Rome in the olden times) we have tele-evangelist to sort all this stuff out for us flying around all over our electronic communication infrastructures for a donation here or there, not to be confused with fees of any kind.