Death from a rational perspective (I)
a mind flying around without a brain, the growing number of minds on Earth, or the cultural relativism of belief in reincarnation.
But most importantly, we have no memories of our past lives, no trace of them whatsoever. Combined with the already assumed lack of continuity of the body, this means that reincarnation does not involve the self at all. Whatever is reincarnated, it is not me.
Again if the nature of the soul is immortal and makes its way into our body at the time of birth, why are we unable to remember the time already gone, and why do we retain no traces of past actions? If the power of the mind has been so completely changed that all remembrance of past things is lost, that, I think, differs not widely from death; therefore, you must admit that the soul, which was before, has perished and that which now is has now been formed.Lucretius, De Rerum Natura
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