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Old Mar 28, 2008, 01:43 pm   #54 (permalink) (top)
Technosoul
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I consider science to be investigative
and tentative in nature. However, I know this: The debate over whether everything's "random" or "mechanically predetermined" is a little outdated. Obviously, it can be parts of both, or neither. It is the mind that tries to put order into the universe, or to see chaos.

Grandpa h.
Timothy Leary said "reality is an opinon" but I am not sure if he had been smoking anything when he said that.

People always come up with those "pat answers" when a topic is debated about something supernatural, or in this case, something that is "para-natural". Being that a ghost has no super powers that I know of.

Plus, if I can coin a new word, we have what I term "Hollywoodnatural" which is a merging of two words to name "reality based on Hollywood fantasy". With speicial effects they can make anything seem real.

Nature can also produce special effects, such as colors in a rainbow, all done with lights and mirrors, rather magical.

A ghost can be the product of the special effects caused by nature as interpreted by the our un-trained mind to determine how those effects were produced or how they decieved our perceptive abilities.
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