Thread 216721517

>before birth you were nothing
>after birth you exist
>when you die you become nothing again
>you essentially return to the same state you were in before you were born
So how do people not believe reincarnation? Literally everything else in the universe is cyclical.

>>216721517 (OP)
listen to this brother, I have been in the black hole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEunth9YCgo

>>216721517 (OP)
Because if you get brain damage, you're not the same person anymore. Which shows that your entire "person" is just a culmination of memories and biological functions that work together to make (You) experience reality.
There is nothing linking (You) with your pre-birth state. (You) will never exist again.

>>216721517 (OP)
The thing that doesn’t make sense to me is how we’re able to just pop in and out of existence for a finite period. We came from a nothingness where there is no concept of time, and we’ll return to that same nothingness once we die. Yet for the brief period we’re conscious and alive time is a universal binding force. It doesn’t make any sense.

>>216721641
But I am conscious and aware of who I am right now, typing this reply. Are you telling me that if I’m reincarnated after I die I’ll be just as aware of who I am in that life, yet have no memory of this current existence ever happening? Then how am I still me?

>>216721548
Anon, don't say such nasty things about your mother

I dont want to think about this

>>216721879
Why not? It’s interesting.

>>216721764
Consciousness is entirely biological, it doesn't exist outside of your body. You won't ever be aware again. It will never form in the same manner.
If reincarnation was real in the sense that you describe, how can the population grow from nothing? Where do the "new" consciousnesses come from?
Maybe there's an outside reality that you can't measure or perceive, but that isn't something that can be proven.

>>216721995
I don’t think reincarnation exists, I was just giving an example. I just don’t understand the loss of consciousness that happens at death and what comes after. Something comes after the nothingness prior to being born, otherwise we wouldn’t exist.

>>216721641
Dharmics understand this. They call it anatta.
The small "you" dies but the big "you" (the universe your composed of) takes new forms.
This is reincarnation.

>>216722135
I'm a huge believer in the "we're in a box, unable to look outside" theory. Whether the box is some sort of simulated reality or something that naturally formed due to an extremely unlikely set of circumstances, who knows.
Consciousness itself is probably biological, but the ability to observe might not even be linked to consciousness.
You might have always been observing, unable to form memories that would catalogue your observations.
Although this is pure /x/ territory since none of this shit can be quantified inside the box, if the box exists.

>>216721517 (OP)
What if you're reborn as a cow in India?

>>216722553
>reborn as a god among men
the dream

>>216721641
My memories and knowledge aren't who I am. They are tools for navigating reality.

>>216721517 (OP)
I think that's drivel