Writer's Block: Spirits

[packbat]

Do you believe in ghosts? Have you ever encountered one? View other answers

First: "believe in" is the wrong phrase. I don't believe in torture, but it still exists.

Second: to my recollection, I have never encountered anything that appeared to be a ghost.

Finally: based on my knowledge of the sciences (from physics to biology to neuroscience to computer science), the existence of ghosts strikes me as not merely implausible, but downright ludicrous. fin.

Comments

What science doesn't accept

[maharia.livejournal.com]

Physics and psychology has until now rejected a large sum of information about ESP despite convioncing evidence mostly because there was little money to be made in it once the military found it an impractical tool but you cannot deny it altogether without a consideration of these psychical phenomenon... related to this may be some eastern particularily hindu Homeopathy or fengshui that have large followings of a 5th force of energy. It is not necessarily religious in natural but ghosts much like many of the previously mystical phenomenon might be logical... we once though meteorites were sent from angels interacting with crystal spheres around our flat world...
Many psychic critics even believe that there might be something here it has been compared to alchemy which eventually created chemistry... it's not quite scientific ... yet.

xkcd #373.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

There have been societies researching psychic phenomena since 1882 or earlier without fruit (http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/2006/06/pretty_soon.html) - not even byproducts like the mortar, glass, and gunpowder given us by alchemists. I have better things to do with my time than research a dead field.