Believing In Tiffanie Wen's Why Do People Believe In Ghosts
Watching the joy in a child’s eye when Santa Claus is mentioned is something that will never grow old. Yet as they age, the belief will diminish and eventually disappear. There are beliefs though that may continue through adulthood ghosts, astrology, psychics, and countless more. In Why Do People Believe in Ghost by Tiffanie Wen she explores the cultural, emotional, and scientific reasoning behind believing in ghosts, although there are still questions left unanswered and unexplainable.
What exactly is a ghost? Well, “the word ‘ghost’ in English tends to refer to the soul or spirit of a deceased person that can appear to the living” (Wen). In general, these souls or spirits are those of loved ones, or alternatively spirits of negative energy …show more content…
To understand these claims the brain is often studied. Researchers have found that our brains “have the tendency to look at patterns and see them as deliberate” (Wen). In simpler terms our brains look for patterns and associate them to causation, instead of looking for outside explanations. “’People assume that if they can't explain something in natural terms, then it must be something paranormal’” (Wen). When there is no analytical explanation for an experience tendencies fall towards paranormal. Science is on a constant continuum of improvement and new findings, maybe someday there will be an all-inclusive finding about the truth behind ghosts and other paranormal phenomena.
Life is full of things that we can’t explain but in Why Do People Believe in Ghost by Tiffanie Wen she explores the cultural, emotional, and scientific reasoning behind believing in ghosts, although there are still questions left unanswered and unexplainable. In this point of time science and reason can’t answer all our questions. Children believe in Santa until they are told that he is not. Well, until there is an explanation for ghosts, astrology, psychics, and others humans will continue to
What exactly is a ghost? Well, “the word ‘ghost’ in English tends to refer to the soul or spirit of a deceased person that can appear to the living” (Wen). In general, these souls or spirits are those of loved ones, or alternatively spirits of negative energy …show more content…
To understand these claims the brain is often studied. Researchers have found that our brains “have the tendency to look at patterns and see them as deliberate” (Wen). In simpler terms our brains look for patterns and associate them to causation, instead of looking for outside explanations. “’People assume that if they can't explain something in natural terms, then it must be something paranormal’” (Wen). When there is no analytical explanation for an experience tendencies fall towards paranormal. Science is on a constant continuum of improvement and new findings, maybe someday there will be an all-inclusive finding about the truth behind ghosts and other paranormal phenomena.
Life is full of things that we can’t explain but in Why Do People Believe in Ghost by Tiffanie Wen she explores the cultural, emotional, and scientific reasoning behind believing in ghosts, although there are still questions left unanswered and unexplainable. In this point of time science and reason can’t answer all our questions. Children believe in Santa until they are told that he is not. Well, until there is an explanation for ghosts, astrology, psychics, and others humans will continue to