That was funny Fast, lots of company in that belief.
To answer your previous post, I thought you meant the senses don't lie, such as touch, smell etc, but I now think you were referring to the minds' ( actually, I think a better term is the brain's, as there is a distinction between mind and brain) interpretation of the sense. Anyway, again, I'm not so sure we do have a grasp on reality. Yes, the sun is not made of pudding, no matter how many believe it, and social constructs are no more reality just because we all believe it, but there are things we can't believe of that are real, but cannot concieve of. I think the mind can be fooled rather easily. I agree that logic and deduction, and induction, is the most efficient and rational way to go, but that most of us are guilty of faulty logic, that what we do makes sense, but only in the context of all our experience.
And Kurt, I understand what you're saying, but seeing what we call a ghost does not imply to me that we have a soul, nor that I believe we do because of what I saw. I may have been witnessing, somehow, when conditions were "right", the playback of a recording of an event of some other time, within this same space, rather than an actual living, in some realm individual. I don't know.
Yes though, I do believe in a soul but not because of these two events. I believe because after alot of reading, I have come to understand that it does make sense for alot of reasons, that I'm not privy to understand, much less know, but that there is a purpose behind all this. Part of what I do know is that we're all connected, literally, and that it has something to do with light particles, and that what we do and think does have an effect on the whole in very subtle ways. We really know so little of physics and what universal law is so that the argument or discussion is meaningless at this point in our advance.
Oh, and GDC I do think you are correct, spirits having a human experience. I guess that's what I was trying to say, which you succinctly said.