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Originally Posted by Stormcrow
Why can't this be studied scientifically? You can study the social structures of spirit society, the mechanisms by which the wizard calls a spirit, the means by which the spirit produces whatever effect the wizard asks for, the physical properties of spirits.
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The presence of intelligence and self-awareness in the subject makes study orders of magnitude more complicated, esp. if what is being studied doesn't
want you to understand it/them.
Then there's the issue of whether humans are intelligent enough or have sufficient context to understand what is being studied. Just because something is scientifically study-able in principle doesn't automatically mean that it is in practice.