Let’s say that it’s scientifically proven that ghosts exist. Would they then stop being supernatural and become natural, thus making it impossible to ever have proof of the supernatural?

  • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Only in a sense. Only if they are “supernatural” in the sense of going beyond one’s current conception of “natural”.

    For example, someone photographing a nuclear explosion would be “proving the existence of a supernatural entity” if they showed that photograph to someone whose physics hadn’t yet gotten to the point of understanding nuclear fission yet.

    Nuclear fission is supernatural to previous-generation physics.

    It’s not supernatural to Real Physics but Real Physics is an ideal that will always elude us.