• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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    7 hours ago

    The whole thing about auras is that they’re not visibly perceptible either. Some people claim to be able to see them, but that’s a completely separate argument from the much more common belief that they exist.

    And according to science, they do exist. They can be detected with certain instruments and even reveal data about health and metabolism.

    Biophotons are an imperceptible glow of light that surround living organisms. Auras are an imperceptible glow of light that surround living organisms. Therefore, biophotons are auras.

    You can call bullshit on someone claiming to be able to see auras, but if you’re saying auras don’t exist because science calls them something different, then you’re simply wrong.

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      4 hours ago

      If you mean to use a different definition of aura, as in just a glow of light, then sure, technically all living matter has an imperceptible aura.

      Could these UPEs play some kind of way into extremely short distance cellular interactions? Yes!

      But thats… not what people mean, 95% of the time, when they’re talking about a person’s aura.

      This is the whole problem of using woo woo terms.

      You can’t conflate two different meanings of words and then act like that is not what you are doing.

      You also should specify what you mean, in cases where a word has different meanings in different domains.

      • Myself, from the comment you replied to.
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        3 hours ago

        So you decided to monopolize the meaning of the term as strictly something that you can point to as obviously wrong, and when I point out that that’s a mischaracterization you cite… yourself… as corroborating evidence.

        You go champ.