DeadManLiving
Ticketholder
- Sep 9, 2022
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Reincarnation's biggest problem is the vacancy paradox. Remember that over 150 Billion people have lived and died, not over the entire course of human history, but from when civilization began and reasonable estimates could be made. So it's certainly more but will keep it at 150 billion.
If the theory of reincarnation is that when soul or body/life X dies, it transcends and rebirths as a new being or "being to be" inhabiting soul/body and life Y, then that theory is not possible to exist except but for a few seconds maybe at a point of equilibrium that will last a moment and then deviate or regress back into into impossibility. In other words, the balance (X= big N or quantity of) people and lives who have lived/died X is and will always be disproportionate to the present lives that are living and alive (let's enumerate that by small n=Y during the present Epoch or period of the population census).
The problem with reincarnation if the former is what is postulated is therefore a vacancy deficit or surplus that will never be in perfect equilibrium. What if a nuclear war wipes out all but 1000 people and civilization must start again, if it ever does. Then who is the arbiter that chooses which among those 150 billion lives who have lived before in the past as the set or collection of X and decides which among 150 Billionth life Y shall transcend into rebirth considering that there are 150,000,000,000 'past lives' to choose from among? How does The selection process work when there is a surplus of dead lives, in view of the fact that the current or near future present population is only 10 billion in proportion, disproportionately?
Is it a random or non random selection process, feature selective, iterative like in accounting we have FIFO first in first out or LIFO last in first out?
Assuming no nuclear disaster and we have as it stands 6 billion people in the world right now that have been born as a rough non fact checked guess, make it 10 billion hypothetically for easy numbers .... Then only 10 billion among the 150 billion can possibly reinhabit or rebirth if reincarnation is true.
That presents a problem because what happens to the 140 billion souls and lives that have died in the past but have no present or current available number of lives to rebirth into or inhabit? Are they waiting in some purgatory state of a waiting list, stuck in cosmic limbo, until their turn comes?
The greatest problem is that this waiting list and vacancy will only exponentially increase with population growth. A life that was born and lived is counted as a unique discreet life. According to reincarnation it will either have some past life assigned to it or a past life that it is reliving, but as time goes on this becomes increasingly impossible because the vacancy of lives lived cannot be cohabited or come integrated, meaning that one body or person cannot possibly be born into three discreet different lives at once.
Next we have the flip side of the coin or the deficit a priori problem of lives that have no prior ancestor that can rebirth it, due to the present population census exceeding the past death census.
Once overpopulation exceeds the census count of all lives that had previously lived and died and can in equilibrium now inhabit or rebirth in a one to one function, population is not static and is either in the state of regression or a growth above the mean. So once the number of people that have lived and died in the past equals the current census of people that live such that reincarnation is possible, the population growth will at some quick point surpass equilibrium into a new era of vacancies, into an excess of living lives with not enough ancestors to possibly rebirth. There would be nobody that died left after all living persons have been rebirthed to inhabit your body!
Most or all of the present members of the population will have exhausted the number of their ancestors, exceed the number which have lived and died before present and that is the inverse of the problem or the deficit vacancy paradox.
If we manage to colonize space and other planets to make room for these wait-listed hundreds of billion past lives that are waiting for new ones to be rebirth, then we could say that the population at present is in equilibrium with the deceased population. When these two curves meet, then that is when reincarnation is only possible.
But the curves will meet and continue departing from each other and deviating. Assume that space colonization and population growth exceeds the number of prior lives lived and died. Now we have a bigger problem - how can we say which lives were rebirth or have had past lives assigned, apart from those who are born without any since the curves or the problem has Now inverted to an excess of population in proportion to the past population?
Secondly, consciousness is only the deterministic flux and flickering of electronic signals between neurons in the brain. Consciousness exists at the awareness and wakefulness axes, and is measured by electrical frequency in the brain produced by electrical activity that flows through neurons as we think. Once clinical and biological death occurs, electrical activity slowly begins to stop as neurons die during a process called apoptosis, which is programmed cell death or when any part of your body decides that it's going to die or rot like gangrene. The process is irreversible and results in your brain cells becoming like a fried motherboard that has turned into dust as if it were dipped in liquid nitrogen and broken into a trillion pieces.
How therefore is it possible or probable that these trillion pieces of partially organic material can reassemble itself in a different location on Earth?
Once the brain is unable to generate any electrical activity because of apoptosis during death, consciousness is no longer possible. Your brain is like a chair or a piece of floor tile or ceramic object it cannot transmit any signals or information and any information or signals and it's final state is lost forever. It's like a computer or a machine that once shuts off, forgets where it left off and decays due to static and whatever injury that would make it inoperable.
Therefore consciousness is only possible when the brain is alive and once it dies unless somebody can build a highly highly expensive and mighty ultra resolution Atomic imaging system to capture the state of all of your neurons and their present firing signals precisely at the moment of death and maintain an archival copy of all of this data, there is no possible way to ever restore, transfer or keep alive some other metaphysical copy of a soul or state of existence. How would it travel and where would it go through? Which power lines or fiber optic networks?
Once you are dead you are in the same state you were before you were born, and you're safe from all harms in life that are certain to arise in the future had you have chosen to continue living, although yes there is a tiny microscopic probability that you would regret your decision after winning some lottery of love or whatever under the deprivation opportunity cost account, but that is also unlikely since the greatest number of suicides is in the Elder cohort between the ages of 65 through 78, while the second leading cause of death is suicides for ages under 34.
If the theory of reincarnation is that when soul or body/life X dies, it transcends and rebirths as a new being or "being to be" inhabiting soul/body and life Y, then that theory is not possible to exist except but for a few seconds maybe at a point of equilibrium that will last a moment and then deviate or regress back into into impossibility. In other words, the balance (X= big N or quantity of) people and lives who have lived/died X is and will always be disproportionate to the present lives that are living and alive (let's enumerate that by small n=Y during the present Epoch or period of the population census).
The problem with reincarnation if the former is what is postulated is therefore a vacancy deficit or surplus that will never be in perfect equilibrium. What if a nuclear war wipes out all but 1000 people and civilization must start again, if it ever does. Then who is the arbiter that chooses which among those 150 billion lives who have lived before in the past as the set or collection of X and decides which among 150 Billionth life Y shall transcend into rebirth considering that there are 150,000,000,000 'past lives' to choose from among? How does The selection process work when there is a surplus of dead lives, in view of the fact that the current or near future present population is only 10 billion in proportion, disproportionately?
Is it a random or non random selection process, feature selective, iterative like in accounting we have FIFO first in first out or LIFO last in first out?
Assuming no nuclear disaster and we have as it stands 6 billion people in the world right now that have been born as a rough non fact checked guess, make it 10 billion hypothetically for easy numbers .... Then only 10 billion among the 150 billion can possibly reinhabit or rebirth if reincarnation is true.
That presents a problem because what happens to the 140 billion souls and lives that have died in the past but have no present or current available number of lives to rebirth into or inhabit? Are they waiting in some purgatory state of a waiting list, stuck in cosmic limbo, until their turn comes?
The greatest problem is that this waiting list and vacancy will only exponentially increase with population growth. A life that was born and lived is counted as a unique discreet life. According to reincarnation it will either have some past life assigned to it or a past life that it is reliving, but as time goes on this becomes increasingly impossible because the vacancy of lives lived cannot be cohabited or come integrated, meaning that one body or person cannot possibly be born into three discreet different lives at once.
Next we have the flip side of the coin or the deficit a priori problem of lives that have no prior ancestor that can rebirth it, due to the present population census exceeding the past death census.
Once overpopulation exceeds the census count of all lives that had previously lived and died and can in equilibrium now inhabit or rebirth in a one to one function, population is not static and is either in the state of regression or a growth above the mean. So once the number of people that have lived and died in the past equals the current census of people that live such that reincarnation is possible, the population growth will at some quick point surpass equilibrium into a new era of vacancies, into an excess of living lives with not enough ancestors to possibly rebirth. There would be nobody that died left after all living persons have been rebirthed to inhabit your body!
Most or all of the present members of the population will have exhausted the number of their ancestors, exceed the number which have lived and died before present and that is the inverse of the problem or the deficit vacancy paradox.
If we manage to colonize space and other planets to make room for these wait-listed hundreds of billion past lives that are waiting for new ones to be rebirth, then we could say that the population at present is in equilibrium with the deceased population. When these two curves meet, then that is when reincarnation is only possible.
But the curves will meet and continue departing from each other and deviating. Assume that space colonization and population growth exceeds the number of prior lives lived and died. Now we have a bigger problem - how can we say which lives were rebirth or have had past lives assigned, apart from those who are born without any since the curves or the problem has Now inverted to an excess of population in proportion to the past population?
Secondly, consciousness is only the deterministic flux and flickering of electronic signals between neurons in the brain. Consciousness exists at the awareness and wakefulness axes, and is measured by electrical frequency in the brain produced by electrical activity that flows through neurons as we think. Once clinical and biological death occurs, electrical activity slowly begins to stop as neurons die during a process called apoptosis, which is programmed cell death or when any part of your body decides that it's going to die or rot like gangrene. The process is irreversible and results in your brain cells becoming like a fried motherboard that has turned into dust as if it were dipped in liquid nitrogen and broken into a trillion pieces.
How therefore is it possible or probable that these trillion pieces of partially organic material can reassemble itself in a different location on Earth?
Once the brain is unable to generate any electrical activity because of apoptosis during death, consciousness is no longer possible. Your brain is like a chair or a piece of floor tile or ceramic object it cannot transmit any signals or information and any information or signals and it's final state is lost forever. It's like a computer or a machine that once shuts off, forgets where it left off and decays due to static and whatever injury that would make it inoperable.
Therefore consciousness is only possible when the brain is alive and once it dies unless somebody can build a highly highly expensive and mighty ultra resolution Atomic imaging system to capture the state of all of your neurons and their present firing signals precisely at the moment of death and maintain an archival copy of all of this data, there is no possible way to ever restore, transfer or keep alive some other metaphysical copy of a soul or state of existence. How would it travel and where would it go through? Which power lines or fiber optic networks?
Once you are dead you are in the same state you were before you were born, and you're safe from all harms in life that are certain to arise in the future had you have chosen to continue living, although yes there is a tiny microscopic probability that you would regret your decision after winning some lottery of love or whatever under the deprivation opportunity cost account, but that is also unlikely since the greatest number of suicides is in the Elder cohort between the ages of 65 through 78, while the second leading cause of death is suicides for ages under 34.
