I've been directed to Richard Carrier's definition of the supernatural.
http://richardcarrier.blogspot.ca/2007/01/defining-supernatural.html
Essentially natural has all minds contingent on matter and supernatural has non contingent minds. I'm not sure that such a ... redefinition(?) is worth doing on the muddled concepts of natural and supernatural but it is a big improvement over more colloquial usage and definition of the distinction. Something to continue thinking about anyway.
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