Talk:Magic/@comment-25013293-20140525163722/@comment-178.27.206.93-20170701201357

To me it seems as if toaru humans generally have the power to change reality through belief.

If the belief is true has no consequence, as long as it is a belief.

Now I might be too Pratchettian in my thinking here, but does belief lend an idea as much power as people believe in it in strength? If so, is personal or general belief more important? And if it's personal, is it the caster or the victims or the sum of all bystanders? Does hope play a part? I could ask questions all day...

Here's something slightly more graspable:

Let's take the rumor with the imaginary number district and forget the people that believe in it are ESPers for a second.

Is it so that the more people believe in it, the more likely it is for some poor victim, no matter who he is, to cross over at 4:44 in the afternoon?

Is it so that if the person himself believes in it he is more likely to enter the imaginary number district?

Is he more likely to enter still if crosses between districts trying to enter the immaginary number district?

What if the guy doesn't know about it, but someone else is watching, believeing it will happen?

AND:

If someone makes an intricate set of laws concerning how to make it rain cheese at lunchtime if you jump on one leg all day, if only that someone believes in it will it happen? And if so, will it be more powerful if more people believe in it?

Does the power depend on the convolutedness of the ritual? This thing called Mana that isn't really defined?

Ideas? Comments? Answers? Non-answers?