Magic is being lucky on purpose.
When we talk about luck, we talk about it as a random thing, accidental. But what if that was only because we don’t have any idea about how it works. What if it was possible to be lucky on purpose? What if we knew what the place was for luck in the universe?
Magic is an edge condition of normal human consciousness.
An edge condition is where you test a computer program with extreme parameters to see if it behaves sensibly under abnormal conditions. Magic is a way of manipulating normal consciousness to obtain paranormal results.
Magic – is the engineering of coincidence.
If it’s an unusual occurrence, and we don’t call it luck, we tend to call it coincidence. Just like luck, regardless of how unlikely they are, coincidences appear randomly. To manipulate or engineer these coincidences to achieve your desired results – this is magic.