A Guide to the Believing Brain
Ghosts. UFOs. Psychic powers. Bigfoot. Are these things real? The correct, skeptical, scientific answer is: “We don’t know, but probably not.” Despite what you may see on TikTok or YouTube, all the “evidence” for the supernatural is shady or unscientific. et plenty of people believe in these things anyway. Maybe you or someone you know has had a creepy or awe-inspiring e perience that couldn’t be easily e plained. It can be tempting to believe that something magical or mystical lurks out there, just beyond the grasp of science.
Why is that? If ghosts and Bigfoot and the like aren’t real, what e plains people’s e periences of these things? One answer is that our brains aren’t computers and our memories aren’t video cameras. We regularly make mistakes in
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