I want to believe in reincarnation, but I feel that YOLO. (I hate western philosophy because of this)What are some compelling arguments for reincarnation?
Buddhists believe in rebirth, not reincarnation. Hindus believe that the soul returns to the creator and then gets transferred back into another being. For reincarnation to exist, you must be able to prove that atma (soul) and brahma (creator) exist in the first place.Buddhists believe the citta (mind) is transferred from one being to another after death for those still trapped in samsara (the cycle of death and rebirth). The mind is provable, but the soul is not.
>>18418905https://listverse.com/2013/10/21/10-interesting-cases-of-supposed-reincarnation/
>>18418908>>18418910Thank you, anons
>>18418908>>18418905>>18418916Explicit memory is not stored in the brain. If we take the irreducibility of qualia, reject the existence of a discrete engram (for which there are good philosophical reasons), and extend this reasoning to explicit memory, it becomes plausible that such memory resides in a non-local field, most plausibly electromagnetic, to which the brain is attuned as a receiver-transmitter. On this view, what we call memory is not a stored object but a pattern of access or resonance.This suggests that habit-energy within repository consciousness conditions the sprouting of seeds across successive moments in a causal continuum that lacks any intrinsic self. In this sense, continuity is preserved not through a persisting entity but through structured transmission. The Lankavatara Sutra articulates a similar model, though here it is further supported through arguments drawn from philosophy of mind.
>>18418905Greco-Roman philosophers including Plato believed in reincarnation.
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>>18418905>>18419024To add to the anon above, if you believe that a computer can recreate your consciousness after death based on, say, data taken of your consciousness during your lifetime, then it is also plausible that amidst the millions of planets in the universe upon which billions of organisms exist, at least one would be shaped by karmic causality to have a body that produces a consciousness sufficiently similar to yours. Both the computer and the alien organism do the same thing, recreating your consciousness, but one is directed via a machine and the other is entirely natural and karmic. In this way, in both cases the kind of body or apparatus needed to sustain “your” new consciousness would hypothetically be related to the consciousness itself, especially it before your death. This relationship is what creates karmic causality between births. And just like how consciousness isn’t a separate soul but rather a mental phenomenon interacting perpetually with other phenomena, so there is no real “you” transferred between births.
Something about us die in every breath, every new day, every ten years, most of you is already gone in old age.No one remembers their past lives due to drinking of Lethe. What, then, does it truly mean to be reborn? The continuation of character?
>>18418905>I want to believe in reincarnation[...]SO, YOU WANT TO BELIEVE IN A COSMIC ORDER OF TERROR IN WHICH AMNESIAC SOULS ARE ETERNALLY RECYCLED THROUGH BODIES?WHY?
>>18419705Life is an RPG
>>18419705It makes sense kek. Annihilationism just feels like cope to me as it’s mostly held by atheists who do not want any afterlife or consequences for the hedonism that they practiced in this life. It seems unlikely to me that if I was able to be born, that is, if a physical body was able to sustain my consciousness and other mental phenomena despite the myriad changes of growth, homeostasis, physical trauma and aging, then those same mental phenomena can be sustained by another body that has “sufficiently similar” capabilities. Refutations of this run into Ship of Theseus problems. Accepting this means accepting the real possibility of transference of mental phenomena across lives, which is to say that karma and rebirth are true.
>>18420046>It makes sense [...]NO, IT DOES NOT.
>>18418910What part about reincarnation predicts that children will be able answer questions dead people would've known?Did they not properly reincarnate, why are memories retained in these few cases but not othersWhat is the reincarnation theory supposed to be? I don't really grant the evidence in the link, I think it's fake an made-up. People are just way too gullible.Call me when children remember the login details to dead shitcoin millionaire wallets
