Atheism Undermines Knowledge

[Faith No More]

Robert Heinlein said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Natural and supernatural are relative terms and tend to shift around much. Natural, to my mind, does not mean subject to the laws of physics. To me the fact that words can refer to both actual and abstract things seems perfectly natural. But I do not think an understanding of this reduces to physics.

Now if you mean a scientific explanation then you are on the wrong track. By itself, the scientific method is structurally incapable of generating a true Theory of Everything. It intentionally excludes qualitative descriptions from its methodology. If there is to be a solution you have to work both ends against the middle.

If I understand you correctly, you are saying that the scientific method has its limitations, such as dealing with abstract concepts. I agree, because I cannot scientifically prove what is moral or what is justice. The problem that I see is you are trying to impose these limitations upon the mind/body problem when it is actually human limitations that fail to answer the question, not the scientific method. The brain is complex, and we are far from being able to explain its inner workings entirely. That doesn't mean, however, that we should suddenly try to understand the problem as an abstract concept. The mechanisms behind the mind must be approached scientifically until it can be conclusively demonstrated that it cannot be reduced to physical phenomena.