There are definite parallels. He's stubborn, but he's not going to absolutely deny things for the sake of denial, as if not being magic somehow makes his powers better than magical ones.

"Sounds to me like the way your world defines magic is different from how it's defined in my world," he says with a shrug. "A lot of it sounds similar, but there are plenty of differences, too. Sounds like it'd be really interesting if someone managed to really work out what's going on with powers in your world, but that wouldn't change them into science if that's not how you guys think about it."