For the record I don’t believe any of it is real although I wish ghosts etc were since I have a major interest in the paranormal

  • anolemmi@lemmi.social
    18·
    1 year ago

    To expand for OP and others-

    To scientifically disprove such a thing would mean that we have hypothesized and tested every single possible explanation and reached definitive proof in each case.

    1. We can’t hypothesize every possibility, since many potential explanations are things that are simply beyond our ability to comprehend or conceive of. We don’t know what we don’t know.
    2. We can’t test for the vast majority of things that we CAN conceive of. How could you disprove that ghosts don’t exist in an invisible, undetectable parallel dimension to our own?
    • Sordid@lemmy.world
      51·
      1 year ago

      We can’t test for the vast majority of things that we CAN conceive of. How could you disprove that ghosts don’t exist in an invisible, undetectable parallel dimension to our own?

      Why would you need to? If they’re undetectable, nobody could have ever seen them. Saying that ghosts exists in an undetectable parallel dimension is effectively the same as saying that they don’t exist at all and every sighting claim is bullshit.