Well some people who believe in reincarnation seem to also think that at least some memories do get preserved, perhaps subconsciously.
Then there is the whole dualist aspect: if reincarnation is real, something must carry over past death. Call it a soul, or an essence or personality or whatever.
While I find dualism highly dubious, I can see its appeal.
That said, one could imagine, at least in principle, that through “some mechanism” your reincarnated body develops the same brain structure that you had when you died, perhaps with some differences needed to account for the different memories. If one entertains this fiction, I would argue there is significant similarity between the person who died and the person who they reincarnated as.
I mean I don’t see any difference between death and reincarnating without past memories.
Well some people who believe in reincarnation seem to also think that at least some memories do get preserved, perhaps subconsciously.
Then there is the whole dualist aspect: if reincarnation is real, something must carry over past death. Call it a soul, or an essence or personality or whatever. While I find dualism highly dubious, I can see its appeal.
That said, one could imagine, at least in principle, that through “some mechanism” your reincarnated body develops the same brain structure that you had when you died, perhaps with some differences needed to account for the different memories. If one entertains this fiction, I would argue there is significant similarity between the person who died and the person who they reincarnated as.
In that case, people with retrograde amnesia are already dead and we should just consider them a new legal person…
Yes. That’s actually how that works.
If no one can identify you and you have the physical symptoms of amnesia (which can be detected… Sorry fakers!) then you get a new, legal identity.
If you lose all your memories due to amnesia, you will still be you, experiencing reality as you, just with your “hard drive” being wiped.
I still don’t see any difference between death and reincarnating without past memories.
It’s like being awake and not remember something vs sleeping and not having dreams.