Observe the wonderment of Nature. It can be an interesting, even educational guidepost to many phenomena we experience in this realm.
Take procreation. We, in essence, clone a version of ourselves when we procreate. Granted, the end product is a hybrid of the parent's DNA. A little from this side, a little from that side, and voila! You got yourself another person; a physical hybrid variation of yourself. You could call this a form of reincarnation; to perpetuate, iterate, via procreation.
Many things in Nature "reincarnate/iterate" like that. Maybe not exactly as before, a total duplicate, but the basics are there. Organic things beget like organic things; a flower begets a like flower, an animal begets a like animal, etc.
When we humans talk about our definition of reincarnation, we think of a person's "soul" (i.e., who we are) as "moving on" to another version of itself. Like with procreation, the same, yet different. Some religions/philosophies believe that if you were a force for good (a human subjective notion) in this life, you ascend in the "hierarchy of existence," to a better "version" of yourself. If not, you descend in the "chain of existence." I believe the sages of old have looked to Nature as a guide to the workings of existence and came up with this idea of reincarnation. IDK, just my suspicion.
We've heard of cases where people under hypnosis have experienced past life regression (PLR). While "discredited by medical practitioners and experts" (a la Wiki), whether PLR is legit or not, who really knows? (see Copernicus) 😉
All this intro is by way of asking my question:
Question: Assuming the "soul" exists, do you discount reincarnation of the soul? There are some philosophies that believe it's a real possibility. Why not?
(by PrimalSoup)