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Originally Posted by photon
I didn't mean that they worked together on their stories, I mean their framework for explaining things is based on what they know, from society, from their existing beliefs, etc. In a different time or a different society in different circumstances they'd choose ghosts or angels or some other explanation for the phenomenon.
Doesn't matter, they're still human and still vulnerable to all the fallacies and inadequacies of the human senses and brain.
But you're still making an assumption that they're a technology at all, they could be an optical phenomenon or a system artifact or any other number of things.. things that seem really unlikely and beyond consideration until someone demonstrates its strange but still mundane explanation.
Magic works because humans are really bad at coming up with alternative explanations for what they experience.. even highly trained magicians can be fooled by something they've not experienced before.
But what you say is true... "If you don't want to make unwarranted assumptions about UFOs, then you can't really say anything about them."
"I don't know" is a better explanation than "I don't know therefore aliens."
If I find a hoof print in the dirt, it could be a horse, a zebra escaped from the zoo, or a unicorn. I can't eliminate the possibility that it's a unicorn entirely, but I'm not going to put a lot of effort into that line of thought without extraordinary levels of evidence to support the extraordinary claim.
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Just curious, are you skeptical on whether or not these flying things exist, whatever they may be?
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