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

reincarnation

I wrote something about this recently, but it was confused and not well worded. I've thought about it some more, and heres version 2.0:

Let me stress again, there is NOTHING religious or spiritual about this, and it DOES NOT mean any part of you goes on or lives again... you absolutely DO NOT carry any memories through etc....

All it is, is this...

When you die, of course your consciousness dies, as it's a function of the living brain. But, we know so little about consciousness itself... who's to say this can't happen? Keep in mind I'm a very skeptical person, don't believe in anything magical or superstitious etc... mostly just science. But to me this sounds feasible.

Here it is... after you die (and I'm not saying I have any idea whatsoever how long after... could be immediately on death or days or maybe years later, who knows?) a NEW CONSCIOUSNESS forms somewhere in a womb (hundreds are formed every day if not thousands). YOU develop in this consciousness. Ahhh... see, this is the part I have so much trouble expressing!!! It's not like your personality or memories "carry on" (whatever that means)... it's not really the same you... it's just a completely new consciousness that becomes YOU. A completely NEW you.

Crap, that's the best I can do for now.


Does anybody understand what I'm trying so futilely to say? With so many little embryonic personalities forming every day, why wouldn't one of them be another you? Why couldn't it? (These are completely rhetorical questions by the way).

Anyway, this is still a new idea for me. Does anybody know if it's been discussed before (here or elsewhere)? I'm sure I'm not the first to think of it. I really wish I could figure out how to express it better!!!


***EDIT***

Ok, after a little more thought, here's a somewhat better explanation of what I mean when I say YOU (and tha'ts the problemmatic part here):

It's not your personality or your identity... not your memory.... its much more basic than that. It's quite simply that fragment of awareness that lives in your brain... that looks out through your eyes and hears through your ears.

Think about how this awareness comes into being in the first place... it's the result of electrical energy flowing through neurons in your nervous system and brain. It forms in the developing embryo and grows toward full awareness as the body develops. The personality is more of a graft-on....

This ethereal awareness... what you call ME I suppose... comes into being and gradually becomes more fully formed, and it dies when the body dies. There are literally billions of these awarenesses housed in bodies all over the world. More come into being all the time, and they're dying all the time too. Why did this one in particular become YOU? Why not me or somebody else entirely?

Ok, Im at my limit again. No idea how to express it better than this. I suspect if I ever DO figure that out, Ill have a much better understanding of exactly what consciousness is.