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Janey · 03-04-2005, 08:22 AM

I asked this in the other thread on ghosts, but I don't think that the discussion is headed in this direction, so here it is in a separate thread:

There's a lot here about people seeing ghosts. Just the other night my hubby and I were postulating about what exactly is a ghost.

Aside from seeing ghosts, can anybody articulate just what exactly a ghost is? In our discussion, we started to differentiate between spirits, ghosts and latent memory. My hubby said that if ghosts are the thoughts of people who have died, but don't realize it, (a la 6th sense) then how do the memories retain their integrity? because memory is linked to neural/chemical processes in the physical brain. Once a person dies, the physical connection is severed, therefore ghosts cannot exists.

I countered that ghosts are in fact spirits, which means that they are much more than mere memories. But if that is the case, why again can they be manifested in our presence?

any ideas anybody? Perhaps there is another thread that this question should be in, but I didn't want to split it out of this discussion.

03-04-2005, 08:22 AM	#1 (permalink)
Janey Junkie Location: Toronto	What is a Ghost? I asked this in the other thread on ghosts, but I don't think that the discussion is headed in this direction, so here it is in a separate thread: There's a lot here about people seeing ghosts. Just the other night my hubby and I were postulating about what exactly is a ghost. Aside from seeing ghosts, can anybody articulate just what exactly a ghost is? In our discussion, we started to differentiate between spirits, ghosts and latent memory. My hubby said that if ghosts are the thoughts of people who have died, but don't realize it, (a la 6th sense) then how do the memories retain their integrity? because memory is linked to neural/chemical processes in the physical brain. Once a person dies, the physical connection is severed, therefore ghosts cannot exists. I countered that ghosts are in fact spirits, which means that they are much more than mere memories. But if that is the case, why again can they be manifested in our presence? any ideas anybody? Perhaps there is another thread that this question should be in, but I didn't want to split it out of this discussion.