(June 4, 2020 at 8:33 pm)polymath257 Wrote: understand those laws using the scientific method.
A very large prime number which is currently unknown to us has the same ontological status as one which is known.
A law of physics which is not known to us has the same ontological status as one which is known.
Numbers, laws, physics -- all these are concepts which humans are comfortable with. That's not what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about things which are entirely unavailable to us, which the scientific method can't analyze. This is a traditional meaning of the terms natural/supernatural.
It's possible that aliens would understand some of these things -- not through advanced science but through methods which humans can't conceive of. In that case I guess the traditionalists would say that the aliens understand the supernatural. They often posited that there would be higher beings who understood what is beyond nature.
Maybe you reject the notion that there could possibly be anything unavailable to the scientific method. But that's unprovable.