If 117 billion humans have ever walked the Earth, and the current global population is 8 billion, then the highest possible average number of human incarnations is 14.625 lives per living soul, instead of hundreds like what some have said. Discuss.

>>40628192 (OP)
since there's a remainder, that would indicate that not every soul incarnates at the same rate. so some will have lived through 15 incarnations, some 14, maybe others with less, like 7 or even 1. I'm curious if the length of one's life is factored in, like do they die of old age or a school shooting? Perhaps those who come to a premature end reincarnate sooner, and thus have lived more lives than others.

>>40628192 (OP)
There are unlimited souls.

>>40628192 (OP)

Souls are generated from something that is transcendent, infinite, and eternal. Its without limit so it is beyond thermodynamics.

>>40628192 (OP)
Some possibilities:
>People claiming hundreds of lives are including lives spent as animals, or aliens, or beings in other universes or planes of existence
>reincarnation isn't sequential: you can reincarnate in the past as well as the future, and a single soul can have multiple incarnations at different points in its personal timeline running around at the same time
>souls can split, and multiple people can validly claim to be incarnations of the same previous person.
>you're right- we only have 14.625 past lives each, and anyone who claims otherwise is lying or delusional
>reincarnation is made up

>>40628192 (OP)
I'm not convinced that all of that 8 billion count as human.

>>40628192 (OP)
How does one estimate global pre-writing populations?

Not arguing one way or another, but this assumes time has to continue in a single straight line. Honestly, why couldn't a single soul be born then die, then reasonably another body and interact with itself, over and over. All 117 billion. Just one soul.

>>40628192 (OP)
Like you say, "average", so the "Adams and Eves" in early could have more.