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>That, per definition, is a supernatural observation since we can’t touch the invisible laws.

The definition of supernatural is that which exists outside of the order of nature, not that which is only explicitly tangible. Natural laws are human-created abstractions which explain the observed behaviors of the natural world, which by definition makes them natural, not supernatural.



“ The definition of supernatural is that which exists outside of the order of nature.”

Natural laws exist without humans, unless one believes the universe disappears without the human to collapse the wave function.

Nature follows these laws, so the laws are abstractly outside of nature.


Again, your definitions of "natural" and "supernatural" are not ones that anyone else uses.

Natural laws are observed within nature, which makes them a part of nature. To claim that natural laws are supernatural simply because they're abstractions, and that consciousness is therefore supernatural regardless of its nature, is absurd. It's a rhetorical cheat, not an argument.


That’s fair, although I’m not sure we can observe consciousness, we can only experience it, we have no measure…




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