There are a lot of bad countries to be born into, I mean just look up the countries with the top number of births.
Also, reincarnation might not be limited to humans… lots of factory farm animals out there for you to be reincarnated as… 👀
Honestly its one of the reasons I wanna live this life as long as I can, I wanna delay being in Afganistan, or North Korea, or a mouse that gets killed by the housecat, or being a damn cockroach.
I don’t like the idea that “memory = identity”
Memory is part of you, but doen’t solely define you.
If someone made an identical clone of you, like every atom and molecule, even the neurons. Is that “you”? Did you split into 2?
If we then destroy the original, are “you” still “alive”. I mean someone has the exact same memories, same atoms.
That’s just Ship of Theseus and can’t be defined.
I’m not made of the same atoms and molecules as I was a decade ago. Some of them might be still around, but it’s mostly completely new particles. Am I still the same person I was a decade ago? If not, how come I can claim ownership of stuff some other guy with the same name bought back then?
I think I’ve read that on the quantum level you actually can’t make the exact same configuration of particles and energy levels in two places at the same time. Trying to create a copy of an object (or, in general, any configuration of particles) would inevitably cause the original to cease to exist. But it’s also mostly a thought experiment, as we can’t do that with more than a few quantum particles at a time.
So far, as best as humanity is able to tell, your memories are you. If we ever get to Star Trek style teleportation, maybe we can define that more rigourously.
Quick edit: I am quite enjoying this debate, though - interesting to hear other people’s takes on identity, soul and all that stuff.