Reply #76: I voted "It depends on the definition, maybe 3" also

[gtar100]

I think conventional definitions of these three phenomenon are far too over-simplified and, typical of self-centered humans, are given overly-human characteristics.

Ghosts - Ever been somewhere that you could 'feel' the sense of history? Was it nothing more than your knowledge of the place or your own mental associations? If you think there was something more to it than just your own thoughts and feelings, that there truly was something "alive" about a place because of events that transpired there (such as in an old house, a sacred burial ground, a mountain pass, a civil war battle field, etc.,) then what is it? Echoes of history only perceptible to mind?

UFOs - "Not all flying objects have been identified". Whoever said that, too funny :) But seriously (if one can be with UFOs), the question I think has more to do with aliens visiting our planet. I have yet to see a report that actually convinces me that aliens have been here, but in contemplating the probability of life throughout the galaxy and universe, it doesn't really seem an impossibility that some species has figured out how to survive the pitfalls of knowledge and right-wing ideology and learned to traverse space and time. So for that, I believe in the possibility but can live with the disappointment if we haven't been.

ESP - This is too easy to dismiss if one thinks of reading others thoughts as if one could hear talking. Thought is so much more than that. And ESP, by its very literal interpretation, is more than that. "Extra-sensory" - beyond the five senses - see, hear, taste, smell, touch. We "sense" the world with more than just these five senses. But these are for sensing the physical world. We live in more than a physical world. We live in the world of concepts and ideas. We "sense" them through our intellect and "make sense" of circumstance and situations through our minds.