Abstract
Once physics is understood to be particular type of pattern-seeking activity, it becomes clear that its purview will necessarily expand with the exponentially increasing human capacity to recognize patterns. Its current restriction to the exploration of exceedingly simple physical systems will be progressively relaxed, until it ultimately encompasses the whole of extant knowledge. Although the scope of physics is in this way effectively unlimited, there are still certain systems forever beyond its grasp. The existence of such unfathomable yet entirely naturalistic systems is reminiscent of the ancient and medieval concept of the supernatural.
Enrico Rodrigo