Are these Ghosts or Just my Imagination?

[J T]

I know for a fact that the one in the second picture is my great grandfather. I'd recognize him anywhere.

[dsheinem]

Ghosts, souls, spirits are not real. We are our brains. Once the brain dies, we cease to exist completely.

This is why I plan to have my brain downloaded and stored as data until such time as robotic technology evolves to the point where I can insert my brain's data as firmware on a machine that will allow me to once again read, write, and play retro games.

In all seriousness if this technology evolves to the point of feasibility in my lifetime, I would seriously consider giving it a go: http://english.pravda.ru/science/myster ... rtality-0/

[Hatta]

Not a chance. Your mind is spatially encoded, not just in the connections of 100 billion neurons, but every synapse is unique and carries information that *is* you. You don't just have to keep track of which neuron is connected to which(thousands of connections per neuron, BTW), you have to keep track of how strong the synapses are. How close two different synapses are. How wide the axon is. All this stuff contributes to how likely a neuron is to fire, and that's how the brain processes information. Until we are able to scan a brain and create an model at atomic resolution this won't happen. With today's technology we still have to use X rays to image individual proteins, and that's only in a regular crystal arrangement. We can't even image a single pure protein in solution.

[d123456]

Those are definitely ghosts. However, they can only be viewed properly through image enhancement:

This deverves a full blown quote. great.
I bet everybody gets this from time to time. Some friend tells something about ufo´s or ghosts and then we´re like: "really!...uhu......"

[Gamerforlife]

Not a chance. Your mind is spatially encoded, not just in the connections of 100 billion neurons, but every synapse is unique and carries information that *is* you. You don't just have to keep track of which neuron is connected to which(thousands of connections per neuron, BTW), you have to keep track of how strong the synapses are. How close two different synapses are. How wide the axon is. All this stuff contributes to how likely a neuron is to fire, and that's how the brain processes information. Until we are able to scan a brain and create an model at atomic resolution this won't happen. With today's technology we still have to use X rays to image individual proteins, and that's only in a regular crystal arrangement. We can't even image a single pure protein in solution.

The brain is just a computer in my opinion. It processes information, but it's not the core of a human being. It's just a tool, like the heart, the limbs, etc. Doesn't matter how well you replicate it, you still wouldn't be able to recreate that person. It's a popular idea in science fiction though, but impossible in reality I think

[sevin0seven]

Those are definitely ghosts. However, they can only be viewed properly through image enhancement:

^

sounds like you had a lot of fun. those white spots doesn't look like ghost to me either, but i used to live in a town outside US where i've seen a lot of "spirits" at night time wondering around. they look like real people to me, but a little bit transparent from what i recall now. i got so used to it that it stops being scary. it's just hyped.

[benderx]

Its dust and lights, go to a movie theater and take a few pics

[KDub]

Also I'd like to mention cell phone cameras wouldn't generally be considered powerful enough to capture ghosts on "film" by anyone who does it "professionally". Most used some pretty serious film (such as infrared) and avoided using even SLR digital cameras at all until they got past 6 Mega Pixels.

[Para]

I am somewhat neutral on the topic, but if you take a picture of a graveyard at night you will see a hell of a lot more orbs than that. Its kind of freaky.

[Hatta]

The brain is just a computer in my opinion. It processes information, but it's not the core of a human being.

Information processing is all the mind does. All you are is the stuff you know and the stuff think about.

Storing a mind on a computer is theoretically possible. Since we are bound by the laws of physics, and the laws of physics are mathematical, and Turing tells us that any computer can calculate any algorithm. It's not a theoretical impossibility, it's just practically well beyond our means.