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  • gon [he]@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mlComplexities of modern life
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    1 month ago

    This always makes me think about the intersection of magic and science.

    Many “mages” way back in Europe such as Albertus Magnus and Agrippa were scientists and doctors. Shamans were doctors. Some of the oldest incantations we have are healing spells.

    Yes, there’s a lot (a lot) of spirituality mixed in, superstition and wrong things, but a lot of it was really more of a framing; scientists explained their discoveries with religion, but their goals were fundamentally to further science, they just didn’t call it that.

    Truly, the people that developed the methods to concentrate flavors, to get sweetness without sugar, stuff like that, they’re alchemists and mages. Doctors, chemists, researches, they are alchemists and mages.

    That really is an apothecary and they really are elixirs of wakefulness. Just as they didn’t call them “convenience stores” and “energy drinks” back in the day, we don’t use these mystical terms nowadays, but that’s what they are.





  • So at first I thought you meant something else, but what I misunderstood is still really interesting.

    An app where you can just list your symptoms and how they change over time and then gives you a percentage chance that you may have any given condition. Kinda like… “My back hurts, it’s been hurting for a week and getting worse, my skin feels dry, had a headache three days ago…” and the app tells you you might have some this-or-that infection.

    I don’t know how doable this is at all.

    Sorry but I don’t know about your particular issue… I would recommend just using Sheets? I mean, based on what you’re saying you just want something where you can easily input a number (pain level) or symbol (took meds/didn’t take meds) over time on a few different axis and get a visual representation (graph). Why not just use Sheets?