I agree with you, it's a simple reflexion about paranormal things. Microsoft plays also with that (
https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2021/01/04/microso...). I just guess that our brain does exactly the same, an empty engine interacting in real time with data in a cloud, somewhere in a twinned universe of information.
When Maxwell wrote his 4 equations between electricity and magnetism he didn't only unified a lot of strange phenomena but he was leaded to discover electromagnetic waves running in an unknown continuum called "éther". Nobody knows what is actually this continuum but who cares. It works!