Philip the constructed Ghost.

Micronote: An experiment in constructing a Ghost.


Date: 02/09/2026
Version: 0.0

Philip, the imaginary, or constructed, Ghost.

Ofcourse, nobody reads this anyway.... but why not write this true story?????
Well, it really occurred, but the interpretations may vary quite a bit.

During the '80's, I studied Physics. The University was home for an enormous Library. Practically, all domains
were there. If you were in "Physics", and wandered around a bit, you (almost unnoticable) entered Math,
and a bit furher down the hallway, you were in "Geology" etc... etc.., but also "Psychology" ofcourse.
Like with all disciplines, countless of Volumes with articles were collected. You could see endless walls of volumes,
one after the other...(ofcourse, today, much much more is digitally available).

When I was once in the "Psychology" section, my eye fell on few Volumes, carrying the letter ψ on the cover,
which drew my attention since this is a wellknown symbol used in Quantum Physics, for example to symbolize the wavefunction.
Those particular Volumes were titled "Psychoenergetic Systems" (if I remember correctly, but I think it was).
So, I borrowed a few Volumes. (But later, I understood that there not much seperate volumes at all).

Later that night, I browsed through some articles. One of the themes seemed to be, to describe paranormal events
with the use of Quantum Mechanics. For example, "Telepathy" was tried to explain with "QM wavefunctions"
and so forth. All in all, a tiny bit far fetched, I you would ask me.

However, one article was quite remarkable. It tell you that it is quite a while back, and I forgot many details.
But the main theme is still pretty much clear in my mind.

Here is the crux of this story...:

A group of psychologists, students, and members from other sciences, came up with the plan
to "invent" or "construct" a spirit (ghost), which they later may try to summone in a seance session.
I believe that was somewhere in the early '70's (or so).

So, they created a hypothetical person, from the seventeenth century (I believe),
and attributed quite some details to this "person". This person was called "Philip". Tragically,
he committed suicide somewhere around at the age of 30.
There are quite some details, I have skipped here, simply because I don't remember them anymore.
But I know that the details were quite massive, and not just a few lines of text if you would
write it down. So, this group made "serious work" in constructing Philip.

Now..., could the group "contact" Philip???

I remember that the article, astonishing enough, reported success in one of the seances.
By some means, "Philip" was able to answer questions, well..., at least in the set of
properties which the group had attributed to this hypothetical person.
How exactly the information of Philip was conveyed to the group, is not clear to me.
It's probably on how the table moves, or how some object which is usually used in such sessions,
moves, or something like that.

Is this a hoax? Or..., was it that a group of people were in a "whisfull thingking mode", where they
simply misinterpreted the "signals", as if they were really from Philip?

At least, I find it remarkable. That's why I have placed it here.

It must be clear that Philip could ONLY answer questions, from the (relatively limited) set of
information, which the group themselves had assigned to the fictitious person.
This seems to point to the fact, that there was (ofcourse) "no Philip at all....

But suppose for the moment, that the observed "signals" were real.... Then what?

Then..., there might be a problem... for narrowminded people like Me.
Well..., nobody knows anything Totally, Completely, 100%, for "sure".....

An explanation could be quite shocking as well. What if a group of persons
are themselves able to produce the observable answers... Yes, they did it themselves...
Then, how did the group "synchronize" between the members in such a way, "as if" an external
agent was responsible??? How was such synchronization possible?
Or..., the constructed ghost really exists (in whatever "form").

But... I don't know for sure, ofcourse. I don't believe it: But what if... there exists
an "imprint" of some construct, or call it an entity, which does exist?
Not a human spirit ofcourse, but something else...?
As if mental activity is registered in "something"..., some part of SpaceTime... or something...

Maybe it's remarkable. But you can easily dismiss it completely if you want, since proof is non existent.