LmBSuicide rates would likely rise sharply if reincarnation were ever proven.
Technically reincarnation is for realsies. Your bits and pieces will be used by nature again.
bsitYou’re actually right on the money. Reincarnation based on certain systems is exactly that, when look at it from it’s proper philosophical framework. But you can just pull it out from it’s framework, fit it to a completely different framework (like one that believes in individual souls) and then claim it doesn’t work.
From the perspective of nonduality, everyone is a reincarnation of everyone, always. It’s internally coherent. Of course people don’t super love the idea of being the reincarnation on people they don’t like, dead or alive. But that’s one of the many reasons nonduality isn’t for the faint of heart.
Is that like how we are all a single consciousness simultaneously inhabiting each person across space and time? That idea appeals to me. Don’t know that I’d say I believe it, but it appeals to me.
Not quite. We have the appearance of (what we call) individuals within one single consciousness. It appears to reflect upon itself from what we take to be individual vantage points (people). That is an imperfect characterization though, try as I might. I’m pointing to consciousness before any thoughts - before you think there’s a you, separate from anyone or anything. Pure experience, before thinking ABOUT it.
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.
A lot of proteins stay forever though. Like bones, teeth, and probably a lot of proteins in muscles.
But the cells themselves are always dying and being remade (except neurons).
Flesh of Theseus.
inb4_FoundTheVeganI’ve been vegan for over a decade, so with constant cell regrowth I’m photosynthesis with extra steps.
SystemDiscEvery animal is photosynthesis with extra steps, some just have more steps.
Well yes, that is technically true. It’s just not as funny to say.
TtangkoI 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.
TranquilTurbulenceSome dinosaurs have been waiting for a loooong time.
I don’t want to live forever through my work. I want to do it through not dying.
- Woody Allen
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