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Originally Posted by idi banashapan
4) You are suffering from cognitive dissonance - a currently held and valued belief system you have will be challenged by the facts, so you dismiss them and make excuses not to find them to be valid.
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I'm neither agreeing nor disagreeing that what you've said applies but will remind you that a life after the death of the body is a central tenet to most religions, so to those who follow such belief systems the evidence required is far stronger than merely balance of probabilities and in some cases there simply isn't any level of evidence. Indeed in some cases said believed life after death appears to take precedence over this one.
Do 'ghosts' exist? Probably not. There is exactly zero proof of it and it appears to be something that should be consigned to superstition. The human brain is very prone to confusion and hallucination. Like any extremely complex machine it can malfunction.
Life after death? Probably not and as a continuation of life now almost certainly not - we are now at the stage of scientific discovery where we can literally watch memories being formed, and hence personalities as much of what we are is what we have experienced. The rest we can heavily influence through modification of brain chemistry and electrical impulses. The alternative explanation is somewhat to hide in the gaps and claim that our brains are somehow a conduit to some other plane of existence but there is no evidence of that.
What I will say, however, is that the burden of proof should lie on those who make the claim of the existence of something to prove it, not on anyone else to disprove it.