【071】我撞鬼了吗|A scientific approach

【071】我撞鬼了吗|A scientific approach to the paranormal

Speaker： Carrie Poppy

Key words：灵异

Abstract：TED演讲者Carrie Poppy女士亲历过一次"闹鬼"事件,从此对各类鬼怪和灵异事件好奇不已，并经常参与相关调查。之后她的调查让她发现大多数的灵异事件其实能用科学来解释的。

Content：

CO poisoning not a ghost event

• Carrie Poppy went a ghost event in which she felt a pressure on your chest auditory hallucinations and an unexplained feeling of dread

• and it turned out to be carbon monoxide poisoning because of gas leak

Then she became an investigator in two senses:

• an investigative journalist

• an investigator of the claims of the paranormal and claims of the spiritual

Found:

• in her 70 investigations 100% events can be explained by science
• others remain mysteries, but a mystery is a mystery. It is not a ghost

Two kind of truth:

• outer truth: can be testable
• inner truth: believe inside of your mind no matter of fact

because as soon as we have these scientific explanations, we know to give up the ghost. We use these things as stopgaps for things that we can't explain. We don't believe them because of evidence; we believe them because of a lack of evidence

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Comment：

我们总是试图给所有未知现象找一个解释，当我们无法用科学来解释时，我们会诉诸于想象中的鬼怪，因为想象，所以它无所不能，无所不包。

我们相信鬼怪的存在也不是因为有其存在的证据，许多鬼怪事件的传说只是在缺乏科学解释下一个便宜行事的说法。

Link：TED|Open163

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