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Originally Posted by bojan
Hmmm..
Now this is a provocative question from me, but I simply can't resist:
What exactly is reborn?
Our memories (which actually determine at least the part of what we are - that elusive "ME") are gone after death.. because they are recorded somehow in our brains (synapses, or on molecular level.. we still don't know the details, it is certainly not a flash drive  , but consequences of loosing memory are the same in both cases). And when our brains decay or after it is eaten by worms... it's gone.
So how do we know we are reborn, when the memory of previous life is gone?
Or, even if we are indeed reborn.. does it really matter ?.. if we can't access those past memories in future life? How can anyone prove the "new" person/entity is actually the "old" one ?? |
Perhaps it is not so much to do with memories and more to do with a rebirth of a similar internal structure. The same or similar DNA and use of the brain and similar capacity for thought. If an entity that was similarly created to one before it, perhaps this would have influence on its eventual thought processes and feelings, which parts of the brain are most active and therefore shape the new form.
Could it not be possible that if rebirth occurs that (if they were reborn human or a similar "intellectual" being) their thoughts and feelings, opinions and beliefs could be similar to the life before it? So if by chance two people met in the Universe, the new form and a human from the form's previous existence, would they recognise the familiar characteristics of this new being?
Completely philosophical and contemplative I know and only what my thought process eventually came up with but I just thought I would share a different possibility to this discussion.
Thanks
