Thread: Ok, trying this again -- refining my theory on NON-SPIRITUAL, NON-RELIGIOUS reINCARNATION

Well - my consciousness arose from that sperm and egg thingy and it was totally brand new - never was any_of_it there before - and once my brain goes to mush, all_of_consciousness_StephL will be terminated. It's an emergent property/phenomenon of a nervous system, and what stays is that bit, which makes it into other people's heads as memories. That's my view in a nutshell.

Originally Posted by Darkmatters

We've all been incarnated (made flesh) once - we can all agree on that right?

Nope - I've not been "incarnated" - I've not been there at all before "I" emerged from my nervous system's workings.
I've not been made flesh - flesh made me.

Originally Posted by Darkmatters

What's stopping one of the countless billions of new lives that will form in the future from also being you?

Lack of mechanism.
How would you imagine this something_of_you makes it into the next body, how could that work? Why only one specific body at a time?



My husband had exactly the same idea, which you have - that something_of_you can get reborn without that being a supernatural happening.
By reading the above linked sources - he changed his mind about that.
Did you check up on those?
Because you know - all that I said to him in real life didn't work on him, so I doubt it might work on you - but maybe these sources will!
No disrespect of course - husband's a highly intelligent man and mathematician, and he managed to hold that view up to now.

By the way - this whole affair hasn't killed off his "spirituality" now - not even if he comes to drop the rebirth concept.
Quite the opposite - he didn't actually read Buddhist stuff for a longish while and now he's freshly enthused about some aspects - meditation cushion is at the ready again, and he wants me to read certain stuff and show me how wise this and that is.
Also how some of it concurs with modern neuroscientific findings and has aspects of what Thomas Metzinger, my favourite philosopher says. I'll take a look and expect him to be correct.

I'm fine with all that, even if he'll come to accommodate for the supernatural - just happy this cognitive dissonance has disappeared.
Reminds me of Xanous and his Christian Atheism, actually.