RE: Reincarnation of the consciousness is inevitable
September 14, 2012 at 6:03 pm
(This post was last modified: September 14, 2012 at 6:03 pm by Welsh cake.)
(September 14, 2012 at 5:58 pm)automaton Wrote: I had considered analogies of similar events. The difference is, that new car has completely different matter. In an infinite succession of recurrences and new occurrences the energy/matter that is in my current body will eventually be used in exactly the same way. It won't be new matter in the same function, it will be the SAME matter in the same function.That's not the way matter or biological matter, for that matter, works.
You are not the same you seven years ago. Nearly every atom in your body, every cell is replaced. Merely the memory of the previous formation/sequence/occurrence lingers.