Neighbor George
The MIT Press Podcast
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What Is the Supernatural?
The word per normal was first co coined by a frenchman whose name i don't remember, back at the turn of the twentieth century. The vocabulary around the supernatural has changed and competely away from any kind of religious connotation whatsoever in our sort of main stream, rationalist culture. So if you say it's peranormal, that sanitizes it in the way, you know, that makes it sound like something you can put in a labin. I meanhat, you know? Tt thut, one day that will become science, and wou know, we won't have red faces discussing it. But, i mean, thattattatthat's dil
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