Evidence for Reincarnation?
Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2021 10:00 pm
Question for Debate: Is there any evidence for reincarnation?
Bonus question: Is it possible that memory simply doesn't work the way we think it does, allowing children ages 2-5 with certain parts of their brains developing to assimilate the memories of others through morphic resonance?
https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgqygg/ ... ket-newtab
Something I find of particular interest is that the pinpoint hits always revolve around places, not people. The "barra boy" in the documentary seems to be no particular person, but he is quite dead-on about a particular place. The child in the article also gets places right.
To me, this seems antithetical to having been coached. If one was to coach their child to pretend to be reincarnated, the focus would be on a person, not places. This doesn't mean the child can't be making it up of course, but given that rats can seemingly assimilate knowledge from other rats, it seems at least possible that humans can assimilate knowledge from other humans. I also find it odd that this phenomenon seems to happen at 2-5 years of age, when most peoples' memories of childhood start - that is to say: The start of our adult ability to encode memories.
My opinion? Nothing supernatural about it, but we don't fully understand how memories work, and given that basic memories can be transmitted to offspring, it doesn't shock me if memories can be transmitted from human to human.
Now, this doesn't mean that the dead human "lives again"... or does it? If I suddenly were to acquire all the memories of, for example, Thomas Jefferson, would I be Thomas Jefferson? I might think so. It might seem to me that I have just reincarnated into another body. Memories are just information, so perhaps yes to reincarnation as we understand it, but nothing necessarily supernatural about it.
Bonus question: Is it possible that memory simply doesn't work the way we think it does, allowing children ages 2-5 with certain parts of their brains developing to assimilate the memories of others through morphic resonance?
https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgqygg/ ... ket-newtab
Something I find of particular interest is that the pinpoint hits always revolve around places, not people. The "barra boy" in the documentary seems to be no particular person, but he is quite dead-on about a particular place. The child in the article also gets places right.
To me, this seems antithetical to having been coached. If one was to coach their child to pretend to be reincarnated, the focus would be on a person, not places. This doesn't mean the child can't be making it up of course, but given that rats can seemingly assimilate knowledge from other rats, it seems at least possible that humans can assimilate knowledge from other humans. I also find it odd that this phenomenon seems to happen at 2-5 years of age, when most peoples' memories of childhood start - that is to say: The start of our adult ability to encode memories.
My opinion? Nothing supernatural about it, but we don't fully understand how memories work, and given that basic memories can be transmitted to offspring, it doesn't shock me if memories can be transmitted from human to human.
Now, this doesn't mean that the dead human "lives again"... or does it? If I suddenly were to acquire all the memories of, for example, Thomas Jefferson, would I be Thomas Jefferson? I might think so. It might seem to me that I have just reincarnated into another body. Memories are just information, so perhaps yes to reincarnation as we understand it, but nothing necessarily supernatural about it.