Its funny because the part of you that gets reincarnated isn't your soul its the matter/energy from your body. Law of Conservation of energy and all.
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There would be reincarnation preachers, coaches, and scammers, promising you an ideal reincarnated life.
I'm fairly well convinced that some form of rebirth (similar but not the same as reincarnation) is real, even if it's driven only by naturalistic processes and not something like karma; and that belief has had the opposite effect on me, wanting to prolong this body's life and healthspan as much as feasible.
Given the sheer amount of living beings on this planet that are routinely suffering in far worse ways than I am, it's statistically far more likely that "I" would be reborn into a far worse life than a better one many many times over.
Every choice we ever make is making and remaking the bed we're laying in.
If it were proven, and you could identify your previous identity, would you be able to claim your wealth and possessions from previous life?
Sounds like the premise for a cool novel
The Reincarnationist Papers. D. Eric Maikranz
that would go for debts too, or alleged debts.
Past life crimes bureau.
Bruh you are viral
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?
Can confirm, it is Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Don't forget deadheading! - everybody being able to basically switch off their brains to a kind of suspend state every time they get bored.
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.
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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?
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.
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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.
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.
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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
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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.
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