@Tyrant Tyranitar. Yet people lie about a lot every day again. Even though it may be unconcious, it happens a lot. I can't do anything other than use religion as an example. Now let's take the biggest religion and assume they're right. Christianity in this case. Christianity counts 1.9 billion people. The world population is 6.8 billion. In other words, at least 4.9 people lie every day, of course if other religions appear to be true, or atheism, even more people lie about reality.
And no, a beetle exploding for no reason is not possible. And if you think it is, show me.
@scuba stevee. Well, the question is not, is there any proof that ghosts are illusions? But the question is, is there any proof ghosts exist? And if it turns that ghosts don't exist, then they cannot be more than a illusion created by mind. So, unless you're able to prove that ghosts exist and explain them, there is no reason to assume they really do exist. And therefore I will be taking the default position and say that they don't exist (and therefore I will also say that they must be an illusion, since that's the only option left). But of course, if someone is able to prove that ghosts exist, and I mean really proof and not show some vague footage, than I'll be willing to change my mind about the subject as any rational person would do. But till that moment I don't see any reason to assume they exist.
Also, why is it that if there is so much evidence for ghosts that there is no evidence put up in this thread yet?
And I have never projected false statements as facts. I only concluded that there is no evidence for ghosts (which is true), so therefore no reason to assume they exist and therefore they must be an illusion created by mind. See how I reason here? It is one point followed up by results and effects.
So again, and yes I will repeat this very often, since there is no evidence for ghosts it is logical to take the default position and conclude that they don't exist. Taking the default position is what we do with everything. Why don't you say that 3-eyed unicorns might exist? Well, because there is no evidence that supports them, so therefore it is logical to take the default position and conclude they don't exist. Now we have concluded that it is logical to take the default position there is no reason to say things like; Hey, why don't you prove ghosts don't exist, after all you say so. Well because I don't say that ghosts don't exist because there is 'evidence to disprove them' but because of the lack of evidence that supports them.
So in short terms, I don't have to prove anything. Disproving ghosts is also impossible. I would have to prove the existence of everything in existence in our whole universe, literally everything. Next, I would have to prove that besides everything that I have just proven there is no space left for anything else to exist, which includes ghosts. As you can see, this is impossible, so therefore it is you who has to come up with evidence that supports ghosts.
And like Chiraami has just said before, there is actually proof that it might be an psychological effect. People tend to see things that don't exist if they really want to see them. When people are really afraid of ghosts they tend to be almost in some sort of search of ghosts, and then everything will appear as a ghost.
And besides, even though I technically cannot disprove ghosts, I could sum up some points that go against the existence of ghosts. I only have to point out one fact, the fact that biology tells you a human being (or other animal for instance) is nothing more than a collection of atoms joined together interacting by chemical or electric energy. This has all been proven, as since there is no reason to assume there is more to it, there is also no reason to assume we have things like souls (which eventually become ghosts). Of course I could go on talking about why people like to assume there is more to it, but my post is getting too long and people won't bother reading it anymore if I do so.
