Ah, I could have been more clear. My point is that “ontologically basic mental things” is shorthand for a more nuanced definition of supernatural which does include your Law of Karma, even though the Law of Karma doesn’t talk about disembodied minds.
By this definition, “the Universe computes whether an event is just” is a supernatural hypothesis, but “the Universe computes the inverse square of distance” is not.
I agree that the ability to insert a god into a hypothesis doesn’t have much to do with whether the hypothesis was supernatural to begin with.
While I have some understanding of what “ontologically basic mental things” might be (and I am not convinced that “supernatural” is routinely used to mean that), I do not have the vaguest beginnings of a clue what the nuanced definition you are asserting it actually serves as a shorthand for might be, so it’s conceivable that I would agree that “supernatural” means it, if I ever did find out what it was.
(I’ve made a couple of attempts to read the post you link to, but I keep wandering off before I get to the end. IMHO it takes way too long to get to any point worth making.)
Ah, I could have been more clear. My point is that “ontologically basic mental things” is shorthand for a more nuanced definition of supernatural which does include your Law of Karma, even though the Law of Karma doesn’t talk about disembodied minds.
By this definition, “the Universe computes whether an event is just” is a supernatural hypothesis, but “the Universe computes the inverse square of distance” is not.
I agree that the ability to insert a god into a hypothesis doesn’t have much to do with whether the hypothesis was supernatural to begin with.
OK, fair enough.
While I have some understanding of what “ontologically basic mental things” might be (and I am not convinced that “supernatural” is routinely used to mean that), I do not have the vaguest beginnings of a clue what the nuanced definition you are asserting it actually serves as a shorthand for might be, so it’s conceivable that I would agree that “supernatural” means it, if I ever did find out what it was.
(I’ve made a couple of attempts to read the post you link to, but I keep wandering off before I get to the end. IMHO it takes way too long to get to any point worth making.)