"The Law is what gives an ilani their power.  The structure used by all thought, all living cognition.  It's everywhere inside and outside you.  It binds the galaxy together, you could say, in the form of the Law of gravity..."

"That was a dumb introduction.  Sorry, I'm improvising here.  Rollback, retry."

"You know how to use math to describe the mechanics of hanging spells, the balances of forces that go as the inverse-square, the inverse-cube, that oscillate with a frequency.  Intelligent people, who are good at math, go become wizards, since that's the high-paying profession that uses math."

"Math can, in fact, be used for more than magic.  A lot more."

"Math, it turns out, can be used to describe how to think.  And thinking better gives you a much deeper power over reality than any spell out there.  It's like a Wish spell, in a way, except for the part where it actually works and does what you want, if your Art is strong and your Way is true."

"By and large, you don't learn to hang spells by doing explicit calculations while you're in the middle of hanging them.  There usually is not time, your hands are busy so you can't use a paper scratchpad.  By doing homework problems separately from the actual process of hanging your spells, however, you develop an intuition for where to put the balance between an inverse-cube force and an inverse-square force, that an inverse-cube repulsion and an inverse-square attraction will almost always have a balancing point, while an inverse-cube attraction and an inverse-square repulsion is unstable."

"Most of the process that produces a higher level of mental skill in an average INT-17 dath ilani than in an average INT-17 Golarionite is not that the dath ilani is constantly doing explicit calculations with numbers.  It's that they have, in offline training, usually as a young child, worked through many toy examples of thought processes slowly enough that they can see what the numbers would be for those, how the Law would apply, and in that process somewhat corrected their thoughts towards the shape of Law."

"The Law is what gives an ilani their power.  The structure used by all thought, all living cognition.  It's everywhere outside you and inside you.  It binds the galaxy together, you could say, in the form of the Law of gravity..."

"That was a dumb introduction.  Sorry, I'm improvising here.  Rollback, retry."

"You know how to use math to describe the mechanics of hanging spells, the balances of forces that go as the inverse-square, the inverse-cube, that oscillate with a frequency.  Intelligent people, who are good at math, go become wizards, since that's the high-paying profession that uses math."

"Math can, in fact, be used for more than magic.  A lot more."

"Math, it turns out, can be used to describe how to think.  And thinking better gives you a deeper power over reality than any spell could.  It's like a Wish spell, in a way, except for the part where it actually works and does what you want, if your Art is strong and your Way is true."

"By and large, you don't learn to hang spells by doing explicit calculations while you're in the middle of hanging them.  There usually is not time, your hands are busy so you can't use a paper scratchpad.  By doing homework problems separately from the actual process of hanging your spells, however, you develop an intuition for where to put the balance between an inverse-cube force and an inverse-square force, that an inverse-cube repulsion and an inverse-square attraction will almost always have a balancing point, while an inverse-cube attraction and an inverse-square repulsion is unstable."

"Most of the process that produces a higher level of mental skill in an average INT-17 dath ilani than in an average INT-17 Golarionite is not that the dath ilani is constantly doing explicit calculations with numbers.  It's that they have, in offline training, usually as a young child, worked through many toy examples of thought processes slowly enough that they can see what the numbers would be for those, how the Law would apply, and in that process somewhat corrected their thoughts towards the shape of Law."

"The Law is what gives an ilani their power.  The structure used by all thought, all living cognition.  It's everywhere outside you and inside you.  It binds the galaxy together, you could say, in the form of the Law of gravity..."

"That was a dumb introduction.  Sorry, I'm improvising here.  Rollback, retry."

"You know how to use math to describe the mechanics of hanging spells, the balances of forces that go as the inverse-square, the inverse-cube, that oscillate with a frequency.  Intelligent people, who are good at math, go become wizards, since that's the high-paying profession that uses math."

"Math can, in fact, be used for more than magic.  A lot more."

"Math, it turns out, can be used to describe how to think.  And thinking better gives you a deeper power over reality than any spell could.  It's like a Wish spell, in a way, except for the part where it actually works and does what you want, if your Art is strong and your Way is true."

"By and large, you don't learn to hang spells by doing explicit calculations while you're in the middle of hanging them.  There usually is not time, your hands are busy so you can't use a paper scratchpad.  By working paper problems separately from the actual process of hanging your spells, however, you develop an intuition for where to put the balance between an inverse-cube force and an inverse-square force, that an inverse-cube repulsion and an inverse-square attraction will almost always have a balancing point, while an inverse-cube attraction and an inverse-square repulsion is unstable."

"Most of the process that produces a higher level of mental skill in an average INT-17 dath ilani than in an average INT-17 Golarionite is not that the dath ilani is constantly doing explicit calculations with numbers.  It's that they have, in offline training, usually as a young child, worked through many toy examples of thought processes slowly enough that they can see what the numbers would be for those, how the Law would apply, and in that process somewhat corrected their thoughts towards the shape of Law."