I'm not even talking about mental illnesses. Pretty much every human brain is wired to seek out patterns and agency, even where none might exist. Normal people can 'experience' the paranomal under the right circumstances or with the right suggestions.
Except every single person, without fail, experiences and witnesses gravity on an every-moment-of-existence-basis. I'm not saying outright that they can't exist. With our current understanding of the world, there's no good reason to believe they exist.
To be fair, you're being logical, academic about this. I can respect that. I didn't start this thread. Maybe I should have stayed away. I do identify with patterns. We see them every where. In nature, in fractal symmetry , the brain, every where.
Actually, voices are often said to be just background noise in a room, where the human brain , person convinces their self that they have heard a voice. When really it's just their brains, minds piecing things together in the form of a voice. Their subconscious gathering ideas and projecting out a voice.
I'm not entirely ignorant or "pretentious". I have heard the logical explanations. Some don't really solve certain issues or aren't complex enough to explain how some one could have a conversation with some one who has been dead for decades and that they never knew.
That sort of thing. And that's an immaterial example because I can't show you that. Well I could, but you'd have to take some one's word for it and that's not very scientific.
I could only truly give you a half baked, optimistically intelligent conversation. I couldn't convince you either way. I can't defend this , it's too complicated.
I'm just happy to see that you don't reject the idea entirely. I don't believe in it entirely, but some times I have to believe that there is a explanation to explain my experiences that hasn't yet been fully acknowledged. We study things on the quantum level, where we can question our existence like we couldn't before. On this very forum, there is a new holographic theory of the universe. I can't claim to be a expert. I can't. But , I am optimistic that we can learn from this. And I think it should be done scientifically and I have tried to listen to Physicists like Doctor Alan Wolf who study quantum theory and challenge things.
Before or after this pseudo crap, we have to acknowledge the limitations of scientific theory, and what we couldn't understand, and what we desire to understand better.
The paranormal if we want to call it that. I CANT make you believe in it. But I don't think it's such a bad thing to be open to it, if you believe you yourself have had a true experience.
I could share a few of mine. But it won't help anything.
Well , that's enough I suppose.
