realised in kelli anderson’s talk.
something you see, can hold, and manipulate; and that which suspends your belief (a pretty definition of wonder), or feels like magic, is more powerful than what you can’t see (or experience with your senses; touch being a primary one).
i think this is heavily based on wysiati (what you see is all there is) — the tendency of people to believe what they can see (or, by extension, experience through senses).
related to no to noui, by timo arnall (against invisible design).