This is one of my favorite topics for mental exercise. It keeps my mind sharp and fulfills my mind’s desire to discover new patterns of connection between things and with people. There is an innate pleasure in building concepts that reflect the way the Creation works. A sense of stability when those connections bring order to the chaos of life. It also keeps my mind flexible by exploring many points of view, and improves coherency of my overall concept of reality. As a consequence, my ability to function in this world improves when my concepts align with how the world works. How the world responds to me is evidence of that alignment.
However powerful, such concepts are just part of the game…