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RE: Can Science Explain ‘Ghosts’?

in #science7 years ago

Sure it can.

Our brain is a a hyper-active prediction machine. We are wired to see faces in things (Pareidolia). We try to rationalize, explain, and bucket stimuli together.

Hence, people retreat to these fantasies to help them explain those sensations.

And until there is actually hard evidence, the default stance would be one of non-belief.

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Yeah, thanks to our pattern recognition abilities, we tend to look for patterns in everything and as you say, we are wired to see faces and this might explain a lot of apparitions that people have experienced.