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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 June 2012 03:28:07PM 2 points [-]

The concept of a supercausal cause is nonsense of the highest order; e.g. "God speaks to me in my heart, and you can't scientifically refute that because it has no experimental consequences". But if you define the "supernatural" as "ontologically basic mental stuff not reducible to non-mental parts, like the Force in Star Wars", then it is much less obviously nonsense; nonsense of a lower order, which is harder to detect.