Yes.

Sorry, it's true.

You are wierd. 

I would apply some reasoning skills to your belief in reincarnation if I were you. What is a soul? How is a soul any different from any other supernatural entity? What evidence do you have of reincarnation or souls?

And yeah, you are pretty strange for believing that.

You are right. This doesn't make sense. If you are a "tabula rasa" at the beginning of every life with zero connection (spiritually or physically) to the previous life, then how are you reincarnated?

I know Hume very systematically destroys any sense of objective causality, but he allows individual, subjective causality. For instance, there is no real way to be certain that two billiard balls will interact the same way even if the situation is exactly the same both times. Now, for scientific purposes, we assume they will because our experience dictates as such, but there is no promise of that.

So, I am having difficulty finding even a subjective causal link between the individual you are now and the "tabula rasa" that comes after you. Why aren't you being reincarnated while you are alive? Based on your criteria, who is to say that everyone on the planet is you reincarnated in some way. If you are completely distinct, then wouldn't temporal restrictions also cease?

It all leads to a very disconcerting end. I am not worried about your label so much as I am worried about you remaining a focused, cognitive entity. If you follow what you are suggesting to its bitter end, your mind will become a plentiful diaspora.

Again, I know what I want to say in my head, I just can't actually say it....but I'll try.

    I guess what I mean is that  when I die I will have new life, completely new.  I will have no previous thoughts about my 'previous life'. Technically I don't think this would be the dictionary term for reincarnation, I just don't know what to call it. I'll just be born again?

Even if I change the word to 'renaissance' instead of 'reincarnation,' this still makes no sense. I considered defining existence and discussing how we are using existence in this thread. It primarily means to be and to continue. That does not really serve us here. In fact, as we have no word to discuss, it is hard to find the ideation to which such a word would be attached.

If you cannot put this belief into words, it is probably not being formed in your left brain, your logic center. This sounds like a feeling or a passion, which is right brain activity. You need to act as Descartes suggests. "Remove the stubor vapors of the black bile," and consider this matter dispassionately. If you do so, you will find the words to express yourself.

Bonne chance!

I was under the impression that sleep paralysis was an actual medical condition. Where you are somewhere between awake and asleep and its really hard to breathe and you cant move. I experience this at least once a week. Maybe I should have done more research on it. Explain it me me a bit if you dont mind Magilum.

Anyway back on topic. Of all the possibilities we have been presented for what the after life could be reincarnation is by far my favorite possibility lol. I cant say I believe it to be true but I do like the thought of it.

Actually, brion might be on to something, its just that he cannot put it into words. He is thinking an obscure little quantum theory called consciousness dominance, which states that, well, consciousness is the dominant force in the nature of information (the foundation of existence), and therefore conscious observers must always exist for the universe to exist.

More on it in this thread here:

In the Matter/Information Conjecture (the link above) I wrote:

e concept of sentience presupposes the concept of information. This is reasonable enough. Sentience is merely a higher form of information processing, or computation. Think of God, a maximally intelligent entity, as maximally sentient. For this a tremendous amount of computational power would be required. The information gradient which feeds computation is based on thermal inequality, or the transfer of energy packets between molecules. These energy packets contain data, which then becomes information when a conscious entity assigns meaning to it. In quantum computing this is called "It from bit" which says the universe exists when it has the capacity to observe itself. This does not mean that there are conscious entities reflecting on the universe, but rather that the universe now contains data, which is stored, ultimately in the fundamental particles of it's composition. In humans this information is shuttled between firing neurons by calcium, magnesium and potassium ions, which create an electrochemical voltage gradient inequality, holding the information. In a computer it is created by electrical pulses representing one of two choices at the atomic level traveling between silicon imprinted circuits, in a quantum computer it is stored as six states known as superpositions.

We can therefore conclude that data is expressed through inequalities in energy, and to that end, a near-infinite level of information resounds throughout the universe. An atom is essentially an organized packet of energy, a photon is the same, except that it is a massless wave. The fantastic variety of ways for energy inequalities to be expressed is born out in the existence of different atoms and different molecular structures into which they might array themselves, in addition, of course, to the different wavelengths for electromagnetic radiation in the photon packet to be expressed. For instance, the information in DNA is stored as four bases transcribed via codon grouping into amino acids, thus dictating the order of proteins.

Data is created by inequalities in energy, and the exchange of these inequalities by grouping organized packets of this energy together. The packets of energy are organized in such a way that they are defined entities, which, of course, is the "physicalness" which we were trying to understand earlier.

There can be no doubt in your mind now. Whichever way this information is expressed, there is no doubt that it is fed by matter, physical substance which makes up the universe. The universe then, can be viewed as a stream of data fed by changes in energy, conscious entities in this universe can perceive small chinks of this data as information.

Due to the nature of the energy gradient, there is theoretically, infinite conscious experience in the universe, with the flow of ideas never ceasing, except when it comes the day that the universe reaches maximal entropy, but fear not, for new universes, according to hyperinflation, are constantly being born for all eternity.

The logical deduction of that is exactly how he put it. When you die, you start over as a new conscious observer (except, obviously, that "you" are no longer "you". "You" are gone. It's hard to word).

But to understand the consciousness theory behind it, watch this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDqaMFHGEZ8

*Shifty eyes* Uhh...yeah, that's exactly what I meant! Thanks for stealing my words!!