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Sean Faircloth:
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Exactly. Some of our laws could also be wrong, or at least not entirely accurate.
"the subjects interaction with nature is proof that the laws of nature do not work in such a way that would prevent it from interacting with nature."
If it is impossible for x to happen, but x happens, then it was in fact not impossible for x to happen. We were just wrong about x...
The second law of thermodynamics would have to be ajusted to comply with this verifiable phenomenon. At the very least, giving exemption to this new force. The new force would be added to the known laws of nature, perhaps as a new type of energy.
Violations of the natural laws are really just violations of the natural laws as we currently understand them to be. If this entity were to defy nature, we would be back to our impossible, and at the same time, possible paradox. It's not impossible if it happens. It would not have defied nature itself, but just our understanding of nature.
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