What's the difference between a supernatural experience and brain activity?

Question

The brain has many self-protective qualities, including denial, creative problem solving, dissociation, natural relaxation, cognitive restructuring, etc.

What marks the quality of a supernatural experience that convinces someone that it involves something external rather than the brain engaging in normal, self-protective activities?

If you were brought up to expect supernatural experiences, are you more likely to interpret your experience as supernatural?

Answer 1

There is a fine line between a short circuit in the brain, and a supernatural experience, and very little to measure the difference by.
You raise a very good point about upbringing.
However there is much too much evidence to deny that the supernatural exists both within and without the brain.
Our brain is programmed to operate under finite guidelines.
Therefore when things occur outside the square people often look for ways to explain the extraordinary.
I would say the difference lays within the sensations leading up to, during and following an event. This with wisdom and experience is a fair measuring stick for telling the difference.
I think your question merits far more in depth exploration than this site is giving

Answer 2

I would like to see how this links to Autism, just as autism is the inability to see others as having independent minds i think belief in god and the supernatural is when the brain settings go too far the other way.

I wonder how many atheists are actually slightly autistic in the medical sense.

Answer 3

Nothing.