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If reincarnation is real, isn't that already happening? Granted, it is not the same exact base material that gets rebuilt in a baby, but in a way the dead body

by rrgok 3y ago

If reincarnation is real, isn't that already happening? Granted, it is not the same exact base material that gets rebuilt in a baby, but in a way the dead body gets decomposed, eaten by other animal and join the soil through feces or get cremated and join the soil/water. Then after sometime, someone gets pregnant gets nutrient form the soil (plants, fruits, grass fed beef...) and a baby is built. Obviously some of the individual base parts will go to other creatures too. We only miss the memory, that which makes us individual human beings. I wonder where the hell does it go. That's is marvelous to me. Where does the memory go?

IggleSniggle 3y ago
If memories are just a side effect of where certain chemicals flow along pathways, then along the lines of your comment... A river is like a memory: water generally flows the same way down them, some days stronger some days drier, and the more they are used, the more they shift their course. Memory is just a word for the human experience of localized state. There is a universal state that we experience a small piece of as we live. Though our experience of it ceases when we die, the state of the universe continues its natural course, with no loss of continuity, just a phase shift. The experience of human life is like a river. At first we are small mountain trickles, barely aware of our existence. As we make our way through the middle of our lives, we are self-important rivers, providing an ecosystem to those around us, sometimes with others flowing their experience into ours, and sometimes as we give our experience to others; some amount evaporating to who knows where and some amount being replenished by rains, growing ever larger. Towards the end, we either become stuck in lakes, or we are like large idle bays, full of experience, most of us moving now with less fundamental "purpose." Lake or bay, eventually we disperse back to the ocean of existence.
solardev 3y ago
Maybe in the old days. These days you'd just reincarnate as decomposition bacteria and then live out your life in a pool of formaldehyde and human jerky chunks inside a sealed casket. There are those cool liquefaction burial places though that will dissolve you in a strong acid (or base?). Your family is left with some you juice that they can flush down the toilet (or drink in a cocktail, I suppose). Maybe the Tibetans and their sky burials with vultures eating your fresh meat is the way to go.
- joker_minmax 3y ago
  Aquamation. It's basically like when murder victims get dissolved in a bathtub full of lye, except they charge you a ton to do it, and market it as a gentler alternative to cremation, because it uses less heat.
burnished 3y ago
Where does a stack of stones go after it is toppled?

by rrgok 3y ago

IggleSniggle 3y ago

If memories are just a side effect of where certain chemicals flow along pathways, then along the lines of your comment... A river is like a memory: water generally flows the same way down them, some days stronger some days drier, and the more they are used, the more they shift their course. Memory is just a word for the human experience of localized state. There is a universal state that we experience a small piece of as we live. Though our experience of it ceases when we die, the state of the universe continues its natural course, with no loss of continuity, just a phase shift. The experience of human life is like a river. At first we are small mountain trickles, barely aware of our existence. As we make our way through the middle of our lives, we are self-important rivers, providing an ecosystem to those around us, sometimes with others flowing their experience into ours, and sometimes as we give our experience to others; some amount evaporating to who knows where and some amount being replenished by rains, growing ever larger. Towards the end, we either become stuck in lakes, or we are like large idle bays, full of experience, most of us moving now with less fundamental "purpose." Lake or bay, eventually we disperse back to the ocean of existence.

solardev 3y ago

Maybe in the old days. These days you'd just reincarnate as decomposition bacteria and then live out your life in a pool of formaldehyde and human jerky chunks inside a sealed casket. There are those cool liquefaction burial places though that will dissolve you in a strong acid (or base?). Your family is left with some you juice that they can flush down the toilet (or drink in a cocktail, I suppose). Maybe the Tibetans and their sky burials with vultures eating your fresh meat is the way to go.

joker_minmax 3y ago
Aquamation. It's basically like when murder victims get dissolved in a bathtub full of lye, except they charge you a ton to do it, and market it as a gentler alternative to cremation, because it uses less heat.

burnished 3y ago

Where does a stack of stones go after it is toppled?