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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Could the force count as a type of magic?
gpt
Depending on how you classify magic, then yes. Most of the aspects that we would normally associate with magic are there. Individuals pulling power seemingly out of thin air, techniques which require access to hidden knowledge and arcane writings (i.e. Sith holocrons,) and obfuscation to the point of where force users are the basis of galactic superstition, are all common to the force .


 There are few limitations to what the force can do. You can talk to the dead, shoot lightning from your hands, make someone see an illusion, absorb a blaster bolt (or a lightsaber strike) with your body. With the proper amount of preparation, the force can even create and extend life through parallels to necromancy (Palaptine is essentially a Lich.) 

Of course, if you were to sufficiently restrict your definition of magic, then it's easy to disqualify the Force.