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Originally Posted by Russ
The general consensus that ghosts don't exist is only a belief people have at the moment - it's estimated that over a person's lifespan 50% of "scientific facts" will be disproved. So at the moment experiments will indicate ghosts are not real but in the future who knows.
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they can't keep changing their minds - this is a binary question. Do ghosts exist? Yes or No. for hundreds (or thousands) of years people thought Yes. Now we have a proven No. it's probably as far as it will go.
When you consider that we are so insignificant in the grand scheme of things (e.g., just living it out on a spinning rock on space, which could easily be wiped out at any moment), it's surely pretty obvious ghosts do not exist. what is much more likely is a human being's need for the belief in some kind of transcendence - the need to believe there is something more after death. death is, after all, quite final. it's hard for us to imagine or conceptualise nothingness. when in reality, we will simply be in the same place as before we were conceived in the womb - and that is that our consciousness will not exist as the neurons that fire in given orders to create our personality, our consciousness, will cease to fire and thus, so will the essence of what we are - who we are. we are nothing more than a mass of chemical reactions and electrical impulses that react to external and internal stimuli. however you want to dress it up, that really is all we are.
It might seem to some quite unthinkable or bleak, but that really is the reality of it. we're only hear for a short time. enjoy it.