RobinZ comments on The Importance of Self-Doubt - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RobinZ 21 August 2010 12:44:37PM 1 point [-]

"Karma" is the only definitionally supernatural item on that list - it is defined to be not reducible to nonmental mechanism. The others are merely elements of belief systems which contain elements that are supernatural (e.g. God).

Yes, the concept of "karma" can be reduced to naturalistic roots if you accept metaphysical naturalism, but the actual thing cannot be. It's the quotation which you can reduce, not the referent.