But we are not disconnected. There is no way to prove that it's not the brain munching on information it already had before you e.g. turned off the lights and tried to fall asleep. It's too complex to actually prove one way or the other. I have had what many would consider paranormal experiences myself, so I don't doubt that they exist, but there is no way to check whether they're actually true and what they mean. This is a touchy subject, but you can't prove or disprove if God or gods and spirits actually exist in the same way. They are definitely experiences that people have, but it's impossible to determine whether they actually exist outside our own brains. I do think there is value in spiritual practice, because spirituality is real for the mind and it helps deal with your own internal processes. Meditation and prayer are actually helpful for many people's mental health, and I can vouch for that with personal experiences, but it's not the subject of this thread.
I would say it's easy to spot when someone is about to die, I don't know how, but it's easy, you just know that. I think it wouldn't be impossible to tell when seeing someone on the TV. Animals are able to spot death and illness before anything more specific happens, and probably people have this ability too, it was important for survival when we were still monkeys, but nowadays the world is loud and we either shut our instincts off or the way human minds work is too "verbal" and categorising to simply listen and let things be what they are.
The political events are also easy to predict.
How do you know it's true? Or not something else? I just flunked a "hearing test" because I hear sounds I'm apparently lack the cells to hear or the signal is "too slight". I'm curious who designs the tests and for whom, because compensation is a thing. You can spot a sound through vibration in objects and in the air - hard to understand when it's speech though. I can read from afar too and correctly guess and monkey people. I don't understand why issues with reading are considered the norm, it's honestly rather outdated or unrealistic.
That's also what I call intuition. It's also picking up on slight signals and gathering them together. Everyone does this all the time, some individuals to a greater extent than others, because of predispositions. Loads of "weird" and "impossible" things can be picked up on. At least to some degree, I believe this is what these children are doing as well, provided that the podcast isn't completely fake.
So I don't think we completely disagree if at all.
I have not learnt many languages as a 3-year old, but I was very inventive with math / could do it and solve hard math problems intuitively without ever being taught and I learnt to read around that age too. I know many languages, often all it takes is exposure, seeing or hearing something once. I don't need repetition to learn and I pick up on new things easily. This is how a high IQ mind works.
Another aspect is that if you dive deeper into that kind of shows, podcasts and what have you, it always turned out that they were fake, exaggerated or can't be replicated.
There was a supposed master of martial arts who was said to have mastered telekinesis and there were videos of him pushing away his students with the power of his mind. Then someone from outside his school came and easily beat him and the telekinesis "didn't work" because as he explained "you have to be a believer". There were many cases like that. What is real in that is that the master created a cult.
That's where I disagree, I wouldn't trust the media too much on paranormal topics, because they have never proven to be true or at least not an exaggeration.
Where I agree is that "paranormal" phenomena are our brains picking up on details we don't consciously perceive or can't a finger on.
It is good to be skeptical. It is a healthy way to approach things. That said, my mother, myself, and my sisters have all experienced "psy-phenomenon"...glimpes of it...examples: (1) A remote viewing episode while I was sleeping at home and my wife was working as a night shift nurse. Suddenly, in what I thought was a dream, I was viewing my wife, through her eyes as she was doing CPR on a patient...and when the patient died, I was suddenly awakened with what felt like an electric shock through my body, I looked at my LED clock display...04:30...and I knew the patient's name (someone I had no idea who she was). When my wife got home from work that morning...I told her about it before I even asked how her night went. I had everything correct. (2) I had a precognition episode where, again, in the middle of the night I had a dream that the power would go out at the hospital at 11:00am. Now, I was a student at the time. This was my first day at that particular hospital...a student rotation. Never been there. My mentor and I were in the ICU talking...I recognized the ICU from my dream the night before...but at 10:59 I glanced up at the clock...got up, walked over to one of my patients on a breathing machine, the power went out at 11:00, the power cut from the machine...shut down...and I had to manually ventilate that patient for about 3 minutes before the power was restored. Almost all medical equipment in 2025 have backup internal batteries...but not in 1988. Those things happened, witnesses were there to confirm.
If you talk to enough people in healthcare and patients that have had out-of-body experiences over the years, it questions your understanding of the world. There is something else beyond our physical world. On one hand, we have the world of physics, matter, chemistry, etc...and then, some of us get glimpses of something beyond that. What that "something" is appears to be in another dimension our sensory system is not normally aware of.
As a person grounded in science and the scientific method, I appreciate skepticism. However, as someone who experiences these unexplained phenomenon, I am also open-minded enough to know that there are things we, as humans, do not understand about our world. If we are lucky, we get to experience them. It is incredibly difficult to prove things that appear to be beyond the realm of physics and matter...mainly because if you are trying to study it with a scientific method, it falls apart. It is difficult to quantify or measure something that doesn't exist in the physical world. It is quite a conundrum. So...this is where the researchers are now...tightening and tightening their methods to make an "air-tight", convincing, undisputable proof of this phenomenon. This is not only for proof of concept...but more importantly, for these individuals and their families that have been silenced and treated as non-human, abused by the system...and in some countries, euthanized.
As far as "consciousness" is concerned, I think many of us use the word incorrectly...healthcare being the worst misusers of the word. Example:
"The patient is unconscious." What is meant by that is that the patient is physically unresponsive, but that doesn't imply that they are not "in there" and "aware". There is a decoupling of mind and body in that moment. Mind and body decoupling occurs to varying degrees in infancy and in those suffering from apraxia. When a non-verbal, autistic savant, with apraxia spells out that, at times, they are unaware of their body, at all...that is a decoupling of mind and body. Most of my job is in busy, intensive care environments...and as such, I see all manner of human tragedy. If you talk to enough healthcare workers...the ones that are "tuned in"...we can tell when the consciousness...the spirit...the soul...whatever you want to call it, has left the physical body. The body may be technically alive...brain stem activity...or perhaps comatose...and there are times when you can sense that energy field that "someone is there"...and then other times when you walk into the room and there is an "absence". It feels sterile, cold, like a morgue...it's a creepy feeling...your "sixth sense" knows in that moment they have already left the physical world.