Do humans reincarnate? (atheist)?

Question

When you die, all your matter returns to the universe, and while the chance for this to happen is extremely small, but because there is a possibility for this to happen, with enough time we would reassemble. And if the lifetime of this universe (or whatever the universe is in) is infinite in terms of time, it is inevitable that we are put back together and reincarnate?

Answer 1

No, canibalising "decompiled" complex structures will never result in replication of those structures.

Answer 2

What you are suggesting is not reincarnation. It is not "still you", it is a completely distinct copy of you made from different stuff.

For example, suppose a person dies. If we could clone him, no matter how accurately, that would simply be another person very similar to him. It would not be reincarnation.

In fact, the notion of reincarnation is incoherent. It is never made clear what exactly it is the makes the new person still the old person.

Answer 3

Strange that loads of this type of question are directed at atheists.

                                   The only thing we have in common is that we don't believe in God, or any religion that worships God.

Apart from that we likely believe or disbelieve many different things, I don't believe in reincarnation, but that has nothing to do with my not believing in God.

Answer 4

There are a number of possibilities: 1. when you die, your just dead; 2. there may be some form of universal consciousness suggested by quantum mechanics and multiverse, universe; 3. there may be a type of coming back as another person; and 4. human cloning is one form of reincarnation.

I tend to believe that human cloning is the best approximation for reincarnation of the whole person. There are elements of both quantum mechanics and classical physics, along with human twin studies, which suggest that as a cloned person matures, they and their genomic donor will become one and the same person. If that should prove to be true, do you see how that would change everything. Human cloning would literally destroy old world tradition and religion. Of course the government and the church wants a ban on this science.

See: Human Cloning Commentary

http://www.reproductivecloning.net/open/...

O.A.K. Embryonic Holography

http://www.geocities.com/nwbotanicals1/o...

Biosystems as conscious holograms

http://www.emergentmind.org/PDF_files.ht...

Genetic and Environment --- Twin Studies

http://www.libraryindex.com/pages/2233/G...

Designing Babies: The Brave New World of Reproductive Technology

by Roger Gosden

ISBN: 0-7167-3299-8

ENTANGLED MINDS: Extrasensory Experiences In A Quantum Reality

by Dean Radin

ISBN: 13-978-1-4165-1677-4

Answer 5

As a computer simulation, perhaps.

Answer 6

I don't believe so.  If reincarnation was real, then where are the new ones coming from?  I believe the population is growing so where are the outsiders coming from if this reincarnation thing is real?

Answer 7

I believe our mind lives on in our descendants and at a young age they can happen to pick up on us in their mind and see some of our memory's which lead many parents to believe their children are reincarnated dead relatives when instead the dead relatives minds is in their descendants and the memory of the descendant is being slowly deleted from the new born.

So when you have a child a piece of your mind and your partners makes your children's

But as for reincarnation of the same person no I dont think its possible