Not what exactly what I said but that's okay. UFOs are actaully a good example. There are UFOs and once they become identified they are not longer UFOs. What doesn't hold though is to say that because it is a UFO means that it was aliens from another planet that traveled for eons to probe someone and leave no evidence. Same thing applies to things that happend that we cannot explain, such as the house mentioned above built in 1901. There could be many explanations for the events but just because we don't know exactly what happened does not mean that it is a ghost/appirition/materialization (from what is completely separate) or whatever suits ones fancy. You have to ask yourself, what is more likely, that my demonstrably fallible brain made a mistake or the laws of physics have been suspended for this event to occur? I recommend reading Carl Sagan's Science as a Candle in the Dark.

What I did say is that it is possible that benign external stimuli has the potential to be interpreted by our brain that is very good at imposing patterns even when there is not pattern there. That point is not controversial, open any general psychology book and you can have lots of examples that anybody can replicate and draw conclusions from.

I would just like to encourage healthy skepticism.

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Not what exactly what I said but that's okay. UFOs are actaully a good example. There are UFOs and once they become identified they are not longer UFOs. What doesn't hold though is to say that because it is a UFO means that it was aliens from another planet that traveled for eons to probe someone and leave no evidence. Same thing applies to things that happend that we cannot explain, such as the house mentioned above built in 1901. There could be many explanations for the events but just because we don't know exactly what happened does not mean that it is a ghost/appirition/materialization (from what is completely separate) or whatever suits ones fancy. You have to ask yourself, what is more likely, that my demonstrably fallible brain made a mistake or the laws of physics have been suspended for this event to occur? I recommend reading Carl Sagan's Science as a Candle in the Dark.

What I did say is that it is possible that benign external stimuli has the potential to be interpreted by our brain that is very good at imposing patterns even when there is not pattern there. That point is not controversial, open any general psychology book and you can have lots of examples that anybody can replicate and draw conclusions from.

I would just like to encourage healthy skepticism.