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such as?
by ochronus 1y ago
such as?
- aa-jv 1y agoSuch as, maybe there's more to life than just chemical reactions.
- ochronus 1y agoMore, how? Come on, be more exact.
- jodrellblank 1y agoYou be more exact; I’ve spent plenty of time in internet woo-woo ideas and I don’t think I’ve heard of auras since the nineties, reading about Kirlian photographs from a hundred years before that. Here you are saying that some unspecified group is deriving some unspecified ideas which are, you claim, life riskingly serious. Just for the sake of making HN interesting to read, can you stop with the one sentence comments that vaguely imply you know something we don’t, and be more exact, explanatory and specific?
- ochronus 1y agono ;)
- Antibabelic 1y agoAre you implying the light discussed in the paper is supernatural?
- maleldil 1y agoWhere is the indication that this light (which is barely visible to instruments, let alone humans) does not come from "just chemical reactions"? This finding is certainly interesting, but it does not at all contribute to "spiritual thinking".
- I_Lorem 1y agoBioluminescence IS a natural chemical reaction, though.
- richrichardsson 1y agoThat perhaps the people who claim to see auras were in fact telling the truth due to having the right genetics to be able to observe this light.
- viraptor 1y agoThey don't. It's normal visible light spectrum, just extremely weak. Nobody can see it with their eyes.
- Aerroon 1y agoSupposedly the human eye can detect a single photon under the right conditions though.
- viraptor 1y agoNot really... https://www.technologyreview.com/2017/08/08/105518/the-thorny-question-of-whether-humans-can-observe-single-photons/ https://www.technologyreview.com/2017/08/08/105518/the-thorn... Or, yes, under ideal conditions, maybe sometimes. 51.6% chance of being right in a yes/no question will not help in this case.
- codr7 1y agoNobody is a pretty strong claim. Human bodies are different in many ways.
- viraptor 1y agoThis is like saying: "Nobody can jump over this 200m wall. - Nobody is a pretty strong claim." It's really beyond the scope of human vision overall, rather than "really hard".
- moralestapia 1y agoThose are ... two different things? People can pick up single photons, this is definitely within the realm of possibility. Btw, your level zero snark can be defeated by the "on which planet?" argument.