magic = anything not currently explained by scientific experiments or formulas.
ex: god, ghosts, monsters.
just because it’s called magic or supernatural doesn’t mean you are crazy, it just means you are perceiving something that can’t be wholly explained in science.
Since science purposely limits itself to everything that can be observed and measured, by its very definition it can not say anything about the supernatural, the stuff that by its definition falls outside the natural laws. Not even whether it exists.
Which probably means that if demons are real, science is useless against them.
That’s where meta-science or metaphysics comes into play by allowing scientists to make leaps beyond the currently known and take a stab at explaining the unknown and thereby making it known, so if a scientist keeps an open mind then by rights things like the supernatural can’t take them by surprise.
Yah. Well said. I base my reality in science too. At least that is what my horoscope says.
magic = anything not currently explained by scientific experiments or formulas.
ex: god, ghosts, monsters.
just because it’s called magic or supernatural doesn’t mean you are crazy, it just means you are perceiving something that can’t be wholly explained in science.
Since science purposely limits itself to everything that can be observed and measured, by its very definition it can not say anything about the supernatural, the stuff that by its definition falls outside the natural laws. Not even whether it exists.
Which probably means that if demons are real, science is useless against them.
That’s where meta-science or metaphysics comes into play by allowing scientists to make leaps beyond the currently known and take a stab at explaining the unknown and thereby making it known, so if a scientist keeps an open mind then by rights things like the supernatural can’t take them by surprise.
I forget who it was who said “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
Arthur C. Clarke.
“Any sufficiently examined magic is indistinguishable from science.”
– Agatha Heterodyne
Start with Clarke and keep going
http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff300/fv00255.htm