There would be reincarnation preachers, coaches, and scammers, promising you an ideal reincarnated life.
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If it were proven, and you could identify your previous identity, would you be able to claim your wealth and possessions from previous life?
Cory Doctorow has a story set in a society where cloning complete with mind restoration exists and is pretty quick and cheap. People make regular backups of themselves and then engage in dangerous activities like mountain skiing and whatnot. I forget which story it is: might be ‘Rapture of the Nerds’.
Wasn't that Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom?
Yeah, could be that, judging by the summary on Wikipedia. I was so weirded out by the Disney World aspect of it, that I frankly forgot to follow the plot.
did they cure pain???
Don't remember that, alas: Doctorow's shorter stories and even some novels are pretty weird, and I was often too baffled by some aspects and details to remember the particulars. Need to give them a reread one of these days, and in text rather than in audio.
Technically reincarnation is for realsies. Your bits and pieces will be used by nature again.
I don’t want to live forever through my work. I want to do it through not dying.
- Woody Allen
Good point. What even is reincarnation if you can't remember a thing?
Some dinosaurs have been waiting for a loooong time.
Dinosaurs reincarnated as all sort of species later on, including human. This manifests in multitude of ways, for example when a furry person has a weird kink for dinosaurs - it's very likely they were one in a past life.
I think about it in a slightly different way.
Once I'm dead, people will keep being born. When I think real hard about it, it's pretty much the same as reincarnation except there's no need for some kind of immortal soul.
There's no functional difference between my experience of being born and someone else's after I'm dead. In both cases, a new person wakes up inside a meat suit and thinks "this is me." This is already reincarnation without a hard drive and a rating algorithm.
even moreso. ever meet people that are a type. where several are really similar. I have even seen and met my own type. not only will people continue being born but ones a lot like you.
To be even more technical. You are being reincarnated constantly.
We shed skin and cells and those become something else while our own body rebuilds itself constantly from other life.
The only cells in the body that dont change out are neurons and sensory receptors.
A lot of proteins stay forever though. Like bones, teeth, and probably a lot of proteins in muscles. A lot of others I'm not listing.
But the cells themselves are always dying and being remade (except neurons and receptors).
thats like the concept of buddhist reincarnation, there is no "soul", ego is illusion in buddhism
like a stream of consciousness constantly travelling through cycles
Flesh of Theseus.
Theseus of Theseus
I've been vegan for over a decade, so with constant cell regrowth I'm photosynthesis with extra steps.
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Maybe it does and the queue is so long we just forget about our old life by the time our number comes up
The existence of a queue sparks the follow-up question: What happens if something is born while the queue is empty?
Donald J. Trump.
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I read a short story once that there's only one person constantly reincarnated simultaneously, and everyone you (I) meet is actually me (you) and only realizes it after death before being born into the next person's body,
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There was a scifi story like this. People could remember their was reincarnation and people could remember their past lives and like rich people who reincarnated poor killed themselves and such.
Would it count as suicide anymore?
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cylons can resurrect/reincarnate everytime they die(the show never actually showed how they did it). plus since they had no fear of death thier reincarnation, they can callously keep throwing bodies against thier enemies, and provide useful intel as well.
strategic respwan?
I would say it's tactical at best.
Rerolling. As a Civilization player, I get it. I'd be aiming for that legendary start too.
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I guess it depends. If you're eager to get the fuck outta this mortal coil, would having to go through childhood again really be something you'd be eager to do?
Who cares, you won't remember anything.
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fuck, man. I don't even want THIS life, why would i want to come back?
It does get better. Gonna take some time though. You have to rest in your life for it to get less shitty every day.
i've been told for 3 decades that it gets better. when does it get better?
Usually after a lot of work with your therapist and coming to terms with your neurodiversity
I've been in therapy since i was a teenager and now I'm almost 40. I'm still depressed as all fuck.
There are plenty of examples spanning from science, technology, humanity, etc. but it depends on what you mean by better. It won't get better until you think it's better. There are so many miserable fucks out there that all they have is money. You have plenty of time left.
They would increase if any afterlife was proven. Even terrible ones ppl will convince themselves are actually good.
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