• Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 months ago

    Everything that exists is, by definition, natural. If by "parapsychological powers" we mean supernatural powers, then no. However, there's a lot about the world that we don't have a perfect handle on yet, and brains are marvelously complex systems that are exquisitely tuned to sense survival-relevant patterns in very noisy environments and make sweeping inferences based on those patterns. I think that, under at least some circumstances, we might be capable of (correctly) acting on very, very little information in a way that looks supernatural. The explanation is probably partially luck and partially our being sensitive to stimuli that we don't normally think of as information-bearing.