Junk thought is defined as "the act of counter-defining science using "anti-rationalism" to explain certain phenomena." In terms of whether or not it is worthless, it usually it depends on what it is. There is some useless information out there and there is some that still deserves to not be discarded. But nonetheless, people have the right to believe what they want. I have had a lot of experience with this sort of thing. For example I have seen ghosts and other sorts of spirits before and so have a lot of my friends. My mother has seen them and so have a lot of her friends. On the other hand I know a lot of people who haven't seen them and think the thought of them actually existing is absurd. My brother and father are prime examples of this. Nonetheless, lots of people have seen them, yet when people claim feel like they are being haunted by ghosts, they are looked down on as crazy. This is mostly because the people they are telling it to have never shared the same experience. Paranormal scientists claiming they can detect the existence of ghosts by using heat and electromagnet devices to detect disturbances. Many people see this as potential proof because it is able to be documented on equipment. I really think they should take a step further and come up with a way that might get the science community interested. Perhaps the thought of there being scientific evidence that there is such thing as ghosts scares people. But just because there is evidence does not mean that everyone will get to see them.
From a scientific view, what would proving the existence of ghosts mean?
I've never had any first hand experience with ghosts or any supernatural phenomenon but I know friends and family members who told me they have. I don't really know what to believe but I've always had an open mind and it's not because something cannot be verified or seen that it does not exist. I mean there are so many things we don't know about on our material world and death that it's really narrow minded of us to exclude the possibility of ghosts.
ReplyDeleteFrom a scientific point of view, the proof of the existence of ghosts would be mind blowing as it would open the door to so many possibilities and theories that our limited minds had ruled out. The most obvious thing that comes to my mind are all the theories about spacial dimensions, I mean at that point a lot of string theories would become a fact.
But it would also be intersting to know what that proof would be, what explication would prove the existence of ghosts?
Now for the paranormal scientists who claim to be able to detect ghost by analysing electromagnetic fields, I'm really sceptic about that. On one hand, to research on additional dimensions I understand how electromagnetism could tell us something,but on another hand Im really fuzzy on how they interpret those result and conclude that it may be ghosts. But maybe its because Im not really familiar with how that works exactly.
On a sociological point of vue, I wonder how knowing that there is really an after life or a residue of life after death, would affect the way live people live.
As I always say, we only completed the human genome project in 2001 so we still have a lot to learn about our world (physical or spiritual).
ps: I didn't mean for that comment to be that long
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