If there is something like spirits, supernatural, ghosts, any of that crap..

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23. In the context of this thread, whole new realities, such as "spirits

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the supernatural, ghosts, any of that crap...", require evidence for them to be regarded as reasonable possibilities. There can be an infinite number of imagined realities, so the odds of imagining a correct reality by chance are nil.

Other issues, such as life beyond Earth or universes beyond our own, where we have no direct evidence, the default position isn't that it is untrue. In fact we do have evidence that there can be life beyond our Earth, and the evidence is us.

We see that we are alive, and that our Earth is full of life. Life on other planets isn't a whole new reality. Based on this evidence it seems probable that there is life beyond Earth.

The Ancient Greeks might have determined that the Earth was round from the different positions of the stars from different locations on Earth, or by observing the somewhat round horizon of the surface of the sea. They had evidence.