LOL ... the machine exists, in the mind of the materialist, whether they will admit it or not, as a result of magic! Magic thinking will allow for many explanations, all of which terminate or are sourced in an initial point of magic.
Outstanding observation, dear brother in Christ!
"Magical thinking" is solipsistic thinking:
Solipsism; from Latin (solus, meaning "alone", and ipse, meaning "self"). [1] is the philosophical idea that only one's own mind is sure to exist. As an epistemological position, solipsism holds that knowledge of anything outside one's own mind is unsure. The external world and other minds cannot be known, and might not exist outside the mind. As a metaphysical position, solipsism goes further to the conclusion that the world and other minds do not exist. As such it is the only epistemological position that, by its own postulate, is both irrefutable and yet indefensible in the same manner.The magical act is sourced and does terminate "in an initial point of magic" — in the "magic word" — of the magician. Magicians construct illusions, or false realities, for the purpose of persuading us they are real. They might just as well: they consider there's nothing demonstrably "real" outside their own minds anyway.
What I find increasingly troubling is that science seems gradually to be losing its historical self-concept as a collaborative, intergenerational, open search for the truth of natural reality, a search which is ultimately a broadly social enterprise. Both Einstein and Bohr (among many others) conceived of science as ultimately belonging, not to the scientists, but to the people.
What we seem increasingly to be finding nowadays is the cult of expertise, in the form of some kind of closed priesthood, that excoriates and tries to punish all non-comforming views. And such folks regard "the people" as generally ignorant, who wouldn't grasp the glories of what the high priests are working on anyway. So don't let them know what you're doing.
Just dazzle them with your "magic."
But the only thing magic is good for is the construction of Second Realities....
Thank you ever so much, dear brother, for your trenchant observation!