I think if non-naturalistic means anything, it can be clarified as follows.
Assume we are running as a simulation on someone’s computer (Nick Bostrom has argued that we probably are). Our sim defines the boundaries of the world we can directly interact with, even in principle. Call that “realm” the natural.
A non-naturalistic event is an event in which the programmers interfere with the sim while it is in progress. Maybe after 9 gigayears they insert the first replicator, brute-force.
We can suspect it’s non-naturalistic because it (a) had no apparent physical causes or (b) was so unlikely as to be ridiculous (although anthropic arguments muddy that last consideration when we discuss the origin of life).
Other senses of “supernatural” I find to be incoherent.
I think if non-naturalistic means anything, it can be clarified as follows.
Assume we are running as a simulation on someone’s computer (Nick Bostrom has argued that we probably are). Our sim defines the boundaries of the world we can directly interact with, even in principle. Call that “realm” the natural.
A non-naturalistic event is an event in which the programmers interfere with the sim while it is in progress. Maybe after 9 gigayears they insert the first replicator, brute-force.
We can suspect it’s non-naturalistic because it (a) had no apparent physical causes or (b) was so unlikely as to be ridiculous (although anthropic arguments muddy that last consideration when we discuss the origin of life).
Other senses of “supernatural” I find to be incoherent.