Magical Realist
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Why do only humans have ghosts?
There are cases of dogs and cats being recorded and heard in empty haunted locations. So no..humans aren't the only ones with ghosts.
Why do only humans have ghosts?
I can describe several ways your brain is lying to you, MR, about what you are seeing right this very moment, as well as every moment since you woke up, until you went to bed, every day since the day you were born, and will continue to do - yes even during every second of your driver's test - and until the day you pass on.Regardless, we do a damn good job at seeing and interpreting what is right in front of us. The instances of us correctly seeing what is there outnumbers by far any errors we make. Think for example how driving your car has depended for so long on your ability to scrutinize and accurately access what is always 100 feet or so ahead of you. If vision was as flawed as you claim, none of us would get past our first day of driver's ed.
I see. So we don't see reality as it is at all.
I can describe several ways your brain is lying to you, MR, about what you are seeing right this very moment, as well as every moment since you woke up, until you went to bed, every day since the day you were born, and will continue to do - yes even during every second of your driver's test - and until the day you pass on.
But you have had a very real 3D human form walk before you, stop, wave, and walk away -without you having seen it at all.Never have I ever imagined a 3D human form walking before me that was so real I could mistake it for a ghost.
The fact is, in a hundred ways every second, your mind is actively trying to "'help" you make sense of the world around you. That is not at all the same thing as trying to give you an accurate picture of what is in front of you.
Again, to be clear, I'm not trying to apply this directly to seeing moving apparitions. I am simply trying to make it clear that the tool we use to observe the world (the very tool you claim sees ghosts wearing clothes) is a notoriously unreliable source of accurate information about things that are outside its expectations.
Yes there is. I just proved it to you. You see no empty spot on your screen. You interpolate screen where your eye cannot see it.There is nothing I am seeing on my laptop that isn't there. There are no colors I am imagining that are there when they really aren't.
There was a full figure person walking right in front of you wearing a gorilla suit and waving and you didn't see it.Whether a person can actually see a full figure person walking in front of them with detailed clothing because their brain is projecting it. It doesn't happen.
False. You proved it to yourself when you watched the video.When we see a person walking in front of us, there is a person walking in front of us. Every time. Never do we imagine such things happening unless we are on drugs or have a brain disorder. None of your examples establish this hallucinating going on in normal people. It just doesn't happen.
Yes there is. I just proved it to you. You see no empty spot on your screen. You interpolate screen where your eye cannot see it.
There was a full figure person right in front of you wearing a gorilla suit and waving and you didn't see it.
@MR: I'm normal, and I hallucinate.
So do you, frankly.
You didn't ignore it. You did not see it at all, even though it passed right through your vision.LOL! Yes..we ignore many things when concentrating our attention on one thing. I am ignoring my TV right now as I type this. So what? It doesn't mean we spontaneously hallucinate full bodies walking around in front of us. Have you ever done this? When?
You didn't ignore it. You did not see it at all, even though it passed right through your vision.
You don't see your bind spot. You can't see it. Try not ignoring a missing spot in your vision.
You see solid brake lights. Try not ignoring the flicker.
You see white where there is no white.
Acknowledge that your perception is not an accurate account of what is in your field of view.
I can go on with examples.
You recall cars on the road that were never there. They are inserted into your memory as you process the scene. This as been exhaustively demonstrated.
It is fact.Things are filtered out. So what? But never does one hallucinate a full bodied person in detailed clothing walking in front of them. It just doesn't happen.
Ah. You've gotten desperate with your retorts. I'm getting through.You've hallucinated cars while driving? You should check yourself in the mental ward.
It is fact.
Ah. You've gotten desperate with your retorts. I'm getting through.