10-29-2017, 06:38 AM
What is a “ghost” anyway?
It’s pretty tricky to provide some definition of what exactly a ghost is, despite hundreds of years of investigation, no one has actually been able to isolate one. Now, of course for the pedants, I must add that this is very likely because ghosts don’t actually exist. But that isn’t as interesting as speculation. So let’s use the definition of ghosts that is most commonly held in popular culture, in both fiction and in what believers state that they experience in encounters with such things.
The rest of the article:
https://sciscomedia.co.uk/science-supernatural/
It’s pretty tricky to provide some definition of what exactly a ghost is, despite hundreds of years of investigation, no one has actually been able to isolate one. Now, of course for the pedants, I must add that this is very likely because ghosts don’t actually exist. But that isn’t as interesting as speculation. So let’s use the definition of ghosts that is most commonly held in popular culture, in both fiction and in what believers state that they experience in encounters with such things.
The rest of the article:
https://sciscomedia.co.uk/science-supernatural/