Demon Outside My House?

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OK so Brian, AFT, Amarok and Gae seem to all be on the same page here. Sorry I didn't quote them all.

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Brian, so when applying occam's razor to this story of 2 different related people having a shared experience and finding out they had similar experiences without previously sharing details, they're both sharing a similar brain delusion is the simplest answer? Undeniably false and material is what I expected you to jump to, but can't you see any bias in this? I mean, cougars on the property would be better than that, really? Definitely tinged by your materialistic and naturalistic views.

I am sick of this bullshit, that because someone says nature doesn't need a super cognition as a gap answer, that somehow that means humans should behave like robots devoid of emotions.

Yes there is only nature, no magic needed. Just like you don't need Santa to explain where the presents under your tree really come from.

Otherwise Thor is equally a reasonable explanation for the cause of lightening. But somehow, I'd bet you rightfully reject such old mythology.

I am sorry if it frightens for someone to tell others there is no super cognition needed as a gap answer. It should not frighten humans to know this is all there is. We are still important in the time we are alive, and while our species exists. And we can still feel love and compassion while we are alive. 

Yes, I stand by my statement that our brains are very powerful, and under certain conditions can cause very intense AND false perceptions.

Brian, so when applying occam's razor to this story of 2 different related people having a shared experience and finding out they had similar experiences without previously sharing details, they're both sharing a similar brain delusion is the simplest answer?

Yup because it's based on something we know is real 

Undeniably false and material is what I expected you to jump to, but can't you see any bias in this?

Biased toward things that happen and we know exist 

I mean, cougars on the property would be better than that, really? Definitely tinged by your materialistic and naturalistic views.

It doesn't matter hoe much you cry "materialist bias " it doesn't make it so .

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Gae even offers a similar shared experience.

Just to clarify that stance. You all believe that a brain experience, shared by multiple people, with no evidence of anything tangible found, is entirely made up in the individual brain and is not real.

I can  agree that it is one possibility, except there would have to be some medium to exchange the individual brains to share that experience.
I feel it's much more likely and simpler, to assume it's like bigfoot or a skiddish animal. Wouldn't the simplest answer be that the cause simply wasn't found or detectable, rather than a shared brain experience?

There is some evidence for mass hysteria and correlations with mob mentality, but to my knowledge, they're still notoriously differing on the details because those are based on subjective perspective.

Am I way off base here, or is that what's the concensus here?

BTW, calm down brian (et. all), I didn't bring up magic, or God the Gaps, suggest anything immaterial or state that all materialists are wrong. I simply wanted to understand your methodology in dissecting the OP and Gae's story.