What is supernatural?

What is supernatural?

What is supernatural? All right, I know this might sound really broad but I think I can specify and clarify it a little better if I explain what I mean. According to Wikipedia supernatural is anything above or beyond what one holds to be natural or exists outside natural law and the observable universe. If a supernatural being/thing exists, there could be only two scenarios; one would be a supernatural being/thing which can interact with everyday material that we can sense (ie. matter, photons, gravity weak force, strong force, electromagnitism essentially anything that exists) and in that case it would have to have its own mechanisms wich we can observe test and learn (there is an assumption here that everything that interacts with us has a 'mechanism' or a set of rules by which it behaves), which would mean it is 'scientific' and not supernatural. The other scenario is if it couldn't interact with our physical world, in which case it would be outside the natural law of the observable universe, but even then the question remains of how does it work. So I guess my real question, which i think is the same as above, is "can something exist without having a mechanism?" and if it does, do we care, or can we just say it doesn't exists because as far as we are concerned it doesn't "matter"? PS: there is one other thing I have to clarify, the mechanism isn't necessarily referring to the "real" world. For example, if we are living in the computer and if a chair came into existed suddenly in my room it still would have to have a mechanism such as the code or a program which was executed by the computer in which we live, and thus the whole process had a 'mechanism'.

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