DO GHOSTS EXIST?

(PIC COURTESY - GOOGLE)

The answer to the above heading is "nope". Since way back, scientists & psychologists claim that there is nothing called a ghost. Some people who claim to have seen a ghost or any paranormal activities are the victims of hallucination  (A term for seeing, hearing, or experiencing things that do not exist) or inattentional blindness.

  

WHAT IS AN INATTENTIONAL BLINDNESS?

- The brain's picture of reality sometimes includes things that aren't there. But it can also miss the things that are there. This is called inattentional blindness. Confused right? Want to know-how inattentional blindness works? Watch the video that is attached below before you keep reading.

( Count how many times the players wearing white pass the basketball. )

                                                      

This video is part of a famous 1999 study into inattentional blindness. 

In above video, it is clearly seen that players wearing black & white are passing the basketball. How many times did you notice white players passing the basketball? Well, the answer is 15 times. Nearly half of viewers while counting the passes miss the gorilla completely. In case, if you too missed the gorilla, you experienced inattentional blindness. You were likely in state called absorption. That's when you're focused on a task that you tune out everything else. Some people are more likely to be absorbed than others. And these people also report much of paranormal beliefs including beliefs in ghosts.            

  ( Inspired from famous 1999 study into inattentional blindness by Daniel J Simons & Christopher F Chabris, Department of        

Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA ) 

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