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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
Well, there's either a physical process, or a magical one. That's the definition of supernatural - not bound by the laws of physics.
Yes, science doesn't answer why, but why doesn't answer how. In the scientific sense, whys don't even reach the theory stage, much less get past it. You can't experimentally test a why. They can only be theories in the colloquial sense, in other words guesses. You can't research a why in the scientific sense, you can only read the untestable guesses of other people.
But if the question is "what is consciousness", the why, even if known, doesn't answer the how (though it would probably, if known, point research in the right direction). And that how is, in the end, either physics or magic.
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No, I want door #3....or maybe #4
You're doing the same think Flint did, gotta be A or B.
You can't say what we don't know is governed by physics.
Nor is it reasonable to say if we find things that don't fit the laws as they are understood now, it's magic.
"mag·ic n.
The art that purports to control or forecast natural events, effects, or forces by invoking the supernatural."
There's no reason to suppose what we don't understand has anything to do with the supernatural.
