The Jesus wrote...
nacho wrote...
animeholic1 wrote...
if u can see something and still not belve it then your being idiotic seeing truly is believing.
So you're basically trying to say that the human perception is infallible?
Simple things as for example the lack of sleep (Leave alone drugs and mental disorders.) can be enough to throw your perception into a state of hallucination, now mix in several factors such as fear, belief, desire, ..., and there you have your ghost encounter.
I would recommend you to not have too much faith into your senses, they're not reliable on such matters.
That may be true, but if you're hallucinating, aren't you perceiving something? It may be intangible, but the fact that you perceive something affirms its existence. Think about nothing. I mean we can say that nothing doesn't exist and technically we would be right. However, the simple fact that we can even say "nothing" doesn't exist, means that we are, in turn, affirming its existence as something.
Reality as it is, is conceived by perception. Infallible or not, one cannot deny what they experience through their senses. Likewise, if one perceives something within their mind, it is impossible to say that it doesn't exist, even if we can't have first hand knowledge of it.
Not neccasarily. As an example: A fatigued person that didn't get enough sleep can, as he is most likely pretty shaken, interpret a persons shadow or something the like as a ghost through halucination through mental association.
Basicly that is what the mind does when you perceive things. It interprets it with things you know about / have heard off or are in your imagination.
Also the mind is very bad at judging things when certain optical illusions are involved. Try to drive a boat a bit away from the beach when the water is clear and than guess the depth of the water. The chances that you will be wrong are pretty high.
So basicly most ghost "impressions" are simply the human mind interpreting something wrong that got blurred by an optical illusion in most cases.
The rest can be explained by other scientific laws so... no. There are no ghosts and unless there is a record and picture of one going to CNN and giving an interview about the problems on the ghost society about grave robbery, the chances that I will believe in ghosts is 0% :P