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Ghosts are real and I can explain them completely rationally: The subconscious is trained to see patterns or anti-patterns that indicate danger. Thus the subc
by MCRed 11y ago
Ghosts are real and I can explain them completely rationally: The subconscious is trained to see patterns or anti-patterns that indicate danger. Thus the subconscious makes you "feel" thinks or see things that, historically in the evolutionary sense, were there.
Only our environment is generally a lot safer, so you sense these things when your subconscious senses risk, and alarms you, causing you to "See" the ghosts.
That's effectively as real as the color yellow, as far as you can individually sense.
- gnaritas 11y agoThat would be a hallucination, which no is not real.
- MCRed 11y agoSemantics. But then, this is hacker news, intelligent discussion gets downvoted or hellbanned.
- gnaritas 11y agoYou can't claim semantics as an escape hatch in a discussion hinging on the meaning of a word. And if one can't object to the use of word like "real" in this context, then it wasn't an intelligent discussion to being with. In intelligent discussions people are more careful with words and always open to being more precise.
- DanBC 11y agoHallucinations are real, they just don't have physical sources. MCRed seems to be talking about paredolia, which is very different from hallucination.
- gnaritas 11y agoThat a hallucination is occurring is real, that which you hallucinate, i.e. perceive, is not. You aren't seeing a real dragon if you hallucinate a dragon, and that's what real means in this context.