Something just popped into my mind. Assuming that what makes you, you is simply your brain configuration (memories notwithstanding, since your conciousness is still you after amnesia and such) then, after enough years, if the human race and everything survives long enough, its possible that the brain configuration you had, repeats itsself in a new born child. What do you think?

You mean...like, you are reincarnated into a body with strikingly similar circumstances/characteristics as one you've had previously?

That is great, and very possible! Since time is as we know infinite, you can probably live hundreds of lives and repeat the same things over and over, whos to say the USA hasn't been a country before just like it is now as well? Finally something scientific that proves death is not the end.

Well, think of it this way. There are 1 million possible "configurations". (In reality, its way way way higher.) Lets say number 43 is you. Right now, lets say you're the first 43 to have ever happened. The next people will be different numbers... sort of a continous lottery... but eventually, when all the possible configurations are exhausted, they'll have to repeat themselves, and there might be another 43, which is you.

But again, I just realised it sufferes from the same fate as cloning... You can clone yourself, but its not you. Damn, I thought I had something going for a sec.

Have you been cloned and/or killed to find this out? It's in such it's infancy I think not.

Its not scientific, its logic. And I've just debunked the reincarnation part, sadly.

But thats not to say that the USA didnt exist before and doesnt exist somewhere else, just as it does here. If time is infinite then maybe the whole process which made us repeats itsself constantly, and has enough time to go through all the possibilities and then repeat them.

Actually, this is the basis for parallel universes. If space is infinite, then there might be an infinite number of universes... and if all the different versions are used up, they'll repeat themselves and there could be, in another universe, another Stellar typing the same thing I am... but I'm not him.

No, but I think its reasonable to assume that if you clone yourself, you dont control the cloned body... you control yours only.

Well, I think the possiblities for incarnations are really infinite. If you think about it, there's no way any two would be the same because every incarnation takes place in a different time - even if a second apart. For example...I may have an incarnation in the 70's very similar to one in the 90's...but they would still be different. So the numbers can't repeat themselves...the configurations are always different because time goes on. Since time is infinite, the configurations are infinite. Each and every incarnation will be different. Does that make sense?

Reincarnation is about learning, and I think every incarnation is different enough, even in the smallest details, to teach the soul something.

Yes, hence my You of today are not you of yesterday thinking. Every day changes you. But in the end, it was your conciousness yesterday and its yours today. The conciousness may have changed but its still yours.



I've already thought that through, I decided to classify it as an unknown factor, for the reason I said above. (I hope you understand it... its 2:30 AM!)



Actually, thats similar to another thought I came up with a year or 2 ago. It was simply this: 1 conciousness... 1 which experiences everything. As in, I'm you, you're me... when I die, I go to a different body to experience a different kind of life... and this would be doable if the conciousness was not bound by time.


Anyway, I'm not saying I believe any of this... the thoughts just come to be sometimes though.

This is so confuzzling this late. I mean early. *headdesk*

Maybe...hmmm....I wonder if there are a set number of incarnations we're allowed?

I do not think this is possible, the physiology of the human brain is never going to be static whilst "the configurations" can change about so eventually you would end up with similarities. The DNA structures through time randomly mutate along with genes and other cells. These mutations can happen on a million different levels with further changing and mutation taking place.

Well if we understand the brain more and can scan everything, every neuron inside the brain. There might be a possibility that you Could make a copy of yourself.

reincarnation. I wont outright dismiss it, as I believe its more plausible than going to any heaven n such. But When you are born, you basicly have a new brain... Thats why every baby growing up learns stuff and becomes more aware and concious. In a way we are all Infinate because we are part of the universe.

Ive heard stories about this stuff, I wouldnt be 100% sure if they are totally true and their memories are that of a past human

But then, if you can scan all that and make an exact replica while you're still alive... it still wont be you, would it?