Comment on OP has a realization
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Sadly, I’ve come to the realization that the sueprnatural doesn’t exist.
There’s no psychic powers, no chaos magic, no God, no UFOs. the universe is cold and dead, and the fact that any of us are alive and aware is a temporary “glitch”
Conciousness is a mystery, and given that Integrated Information Theory was recently branded a pseudoscience. It will remain so, but neuroscience says it aint the fucking soul.
Plenty of “supernatural” things exist.
We can fly through the air with nothing connecting us to the ground at all - flight was as fantastical as magic to early humanity.
Psychic powers? We can already silently communicate across the world in fractions of a second - is that not functional telepathy?
Chaos magic? We have the ultimate earth rending fireball spell. We call it nuclear arms.
To repurpose a saying about alternative medicine: Supernatural phenomenon proven to exist is just science
These are all based in the natural world
echodot@feddit.uk 5 days ago
Aliens are not the same things as ghosts. They’re not supernatural. They’re just people who evolved on a different planet to us it doesn’t require anything other than basic science.
To be clear I’m not saying that any have ever visited earth but you don’t need to lump them in with ghosts unicorns and magicians.
Zron@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Oh aliens definitely exist. Everything from slime molds to interplanetary and even interstellar species probably exists somewhere.
They’re not gonna fucking come here though. No one in the universe besides us can probably even detect earth as having intelligent life. We’ve only been broadcasting radio for a little over a century, on a planet that’s 4.5 billion years old.
And If you can travel between stars, you can also live perfectly fine without a planet. I’m sure there are star systems with much better resources than sol, that don’t have omnicidal apes with itchy nuclear trigger fingers.
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
No but claims that UFOs have reached Earth are definitely bogus
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Aliens, at least highly advanced ones, actually function very similar to angels, gods, demons, etc philosophically. Imagine an alien species that evolved a hundred million years before we did. Unless we’re already close to some upper limit to science and technology, such aliens would be as gods to us.
Alien visitors thus end up functioning very similarly, philosophically speaking, to gods and angels. Traditionally unknown natural phenomena would be attributed to gods. But aliens can serve the same function. See something strange in the sky? No matter how strange, super advanced aliens might be responsible. We have no idea what they’re capable of. Astronomers discover a star behaving really oddly? Could be aliens. Strange comet flying through the solar system? Could be an alien space ship.
We cannot begin to predict the capabilities of a species millions of years more advanced than ourselves. Thus, just like the gods of old, advanced aliens can be used to explain any unknown natural phenomena. Instead of god of the gaps, you get aliens of the gaps.