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Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos  If a group of kids reported an apparition of Santa Claus, what would happen? The adults would chuckle and dismiss it as childhood fantasy. The ones that aren't dismissed are the ones believed by adults. Yet this is no reason to think that the ones believed by adults are more likely to be real. |
If you are implying that it is only adults who believe in 'ghosts' who see collective appariations, this is not the case.
Nor can one even dismiss children who claim to collectively see Santa Claus as beyond all possibility, if minds can share hallucinatory information via telepathy, as suggesting in dream telepathy lab studies, with odds of 22 billion to 1 against chance. If sharing an hallucination is possible, it might offer explanations of such things as alien abduction, etc. which might be shared subjective experiences but still not real to our world.
First materialists have to prove hallucination is only a brain function, I don't mean suggestive evidence, I mean decent evidence on how it works.
Regardless, objectivity is the product of agreement between subjectivities. What alternative definition works?