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Message: [QUOTE="Icculus, post: 4358209, member: 1325"] Well, mankind does have an explanation within it's current understanding. It's called a "ghost". Again, I'm not saying it was a ghost. But it seems like you have zeroed in on a prosaic explanation & nothing else. I agree that everything we "see" is filtered by the brain. Whatever it is that I saw, I don't think it was like an actual physical thing in the room. If there was a video camera there recording, I don't necessarily think it would have recorded anything unusual. BUT, that doesn't mean that there wasn't anything there. The brain takes information from our sensory organs and constructs the visual world that we experience around us. Something was sensed in a certain spot in the room and that's the way that my brain represented it. The things you list don't match up with what I experienced. Maybe somebody slipped me some LSD. Maybe I was secretly hypnotized into seeing a ghost by a rogue hypnotist. Perhaps the military was testing a hologram machine on random civilians. It seems like you want to shoehorn in any explanation as long as it fits in with your expectations about the world. It's not entirely your fault, because it's not like I gave 30 paragraphs of fine detail about the event and of all the ways I tried debunking what i saw, because believe me, I definitely tried debunking this. I was very motivated. I did NOT want to feel like I was working in a "haunted" place. When you say "....they are plausible, and your claim is vastly less so", that is very true within a specific world-view: reductive materialism. If it's your choice to follow that, that's fine. But don't confuse that with actual science. There are very strong academic arguments against materialism in both the worlds of science and philosophy. This depends on your definition of "substantiated". It also depends on who is doing the substantiating. It also assumes that this phenomena, whatever it may be, is even substantiate-able in the classic empirical sense. [/QUOTE]

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