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Supermatural IS things beyond our understanding of nature, phenomena that cannot be explained by science.
If we could scientifically prove ghosts exist, the phenomena associated with them are no longer inexplicable to science, they would no longer beyond our understanding of nature, ergo they'd no longer be supernatural - just natural
I'll compare to the concept of human culture being called superorganic, which is an old cultural anthropology concept which can provide a model for critical thinking. We don't understand culture, yet we define it, record it, measure it. Hard to predict, I'll admit. Refering to it as superorganic implies it exists at a higher complexity than we understand. Gravity and many other observational phenomena also exist at a higher compexity than we understand. Thus although you may not like to refer to such things as supernatural, it's not wrong, it's an opinion.
Last I was aware, the idea of human culture being "superorganic" referred to the idea of our culture itself acting as an organism above the individuals that compose it, i.e. a superorganism.
The concept being based on emergent behaviour observed in colony forming insects (I.e. ants, bees, etc.) to act as an apparent single larger organism.
That isn't the same as the concept of the supernatural, where it refers to things beyond our understanding of nature.
Not knowing the exact cause of a natural phenomena doesn't mean that we don't understand how it fits into nature - if it exists, then it can be understood, ergo not supernatural.
It's not that I don't like it, it's that you give such a vague definition as to what qualifies as supernatural that damn near anything you feel like could qualify.
https://anthropology.iresearchnet.com/superorganic/
There's no referal to superorganism, not sure where you picked that up, just the superorganic. Many people believe different things about what is supernatural, it's inherently vague. Many people believe ghosts are real but they are still refered to as the supernatural.
Your source doesn't specifically say the word "superorganism", but that is what the idea of the superorganic points to - a higher level superorganism, the same as a bee hive, a termite nest, or an ant colony...
It doesn't refer to any ability/inability to understand culture, which was my main point.
Yeah, because they believe in ghosts, they don't know they're real...
If you can't definitively, scientifically prove ghosts exist, then there is no way to understand how they work in nature, ergo they're supernatural. I don't think it's that vague...
We don't know the exact cause of life on earth, doesn't mean all life on Earth (including you) is supernatural.
Of couse it doesn't say superorganism, that's just plain wrong. My source is also any intro anthro textbook. It's over your head it seems.
The term superorganic was coined by Herbert Spencer while discussing the idea of the social organism, that society itself acts like an organism - guess what concept that is?
Oh right, the superorganism.
Just because it doesn't say that exact word in your source doesn't mean it's wrong...
And again, that wasn't even my main point, that was an aside that you started.
What is wrong is acting like gravity is some supernatural mumbo-jumbo because we can't exactly pinpoint it's exact cause, despite the fact that we can observe, predict, and calculate it with pinpoint precision.
Not understanding the cause of something =/= not understanding the concept of something
Ghosts are supernatural because we don't even know if they're real, nevermind their cause...
If we were able to prove their existence, we can understand the concept and learn how they work - with sufficient understanding of how they integrate into nature, they would no longer be supernatural.
It isn't that vague or subjective, either something fits into humanity's understanding of the natural world or it doesn't.
Anyways, I'm just about done with this, so hope you have a good one.
Bye