Never mind karmic debt, you’d carry your student loans over to the next life.
I’m 50 and forget shit all the time now. I’m pretty sure the human mind was really only meant to carry a finite amount of data. Hundreds or thousands of years worth of memories probably wouldn’t be possible for us to hold onto, with any degree of accuracy.
Y’all already lay in bed awake at night thinking about that cringy thing you did when you were in middle school. Yeah, that thing. Y’all want lifetimes of that?
“Hey Carl?”
“Yeah, Mikey?”
“Remember when we-”
“No, and I don’t want to.”
“Inostrancevias, Carl. We were inostrancevias. And you-”
“Goddamn it, Mikey, I told you I hate remembering this.”
“Haha! Yeah. You did. So, like, we were inostrancevias, it was like 260 million years ago, and you - haha! - you managed to choke to death!”
“Shut up.”
“On a rock! Because you thought it was a small animal! Haha!”
“…I hate you so much.”
“Ever wonder what that rock reincarnated as? Eh?”
“I’m leaving.”
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No one has any idea of whether consciousness is emergent or not. It’s unfalsifiable. Emergent consciousness is just speculation.
When consciousness observes reality, reality will change its behaviour, or seems to, and that would suggest that maybe reality is emergent from consciousness. But again, unfalsifiable, cannot be proven nor disproven.
Point is, no one anywhere has a solid grasp on what consciousness is. That’s why it’s called “the hard problem of consciousness”
Whichever way you look at it both are equally absurd.
In order for that debate to even take place, it has to be proven that “consciousness” exists on some special level.
There’s no proof that there is some special sauce that is “consciousness” beyond just synapses, hormones and chemicals.
In other words, It’s very likely that consciousness falls under the category of “if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck…”
My answers aren’t dictated by an awareness of self; they’re dictated by a chemical hormonal soup that we pretend is some grand concept of self-awareness.
I concur
In the US? Worse, much worse. We’d have kings and queens at this point. The rich would make sure that their wealth always came back to them. People would probably have to test who their baby was before, probably a lot of adoptions and what have you. I could see parents suing the rich person if they didn’t share their wealth, likely new laws would need to be enacted to insure the wealth isn’t shared with anyone (and we know it’ll pass because anything that hurts people always passes). I could even see a greater decline in birthrates. Who wants to carry a baby to term just to have it snatched away by the Walmart empire and leaving you with nothing but the scars? Or what if you happen to get a murderer who did heinous things?
Oh god, and debt would never, ever die. As soon as you’re 18, they’d drop those same bills off, likely with interest. There would be no end to suffering, no peace at the end. You’ll be in your 80’s, still working to pay off debt that may be from two lifetimes ago. It would be harder for new artists as well. Just keep throwing Beyonce out there. Why get a new actor? Just keep putting the same guy in there, over and over.
Only thing I could see getting a little better is racism. Since you can’t control who or what you come back as, kind of hard to hate brown people when you’re just a flip of a coin away. They literally wouldn’t be able to judge a book by its cover.
But we do choose the next life. It is far to complicated to explain here. There are many factors in the afterlife that cause bad choices to be made, karmic debt ( which is carried on from many past lives) for one.
We are also reborn on other planets and have all been each other’s relatives in almost every combination possible.
We do remember our past lives but we are reborn into a body that barely functions. We can’t control it in the sense that even a 4 year old can. Rather than that information of our previous life being discussed we forget about it while being presented with our new life and the realization that we are once again trapped in the cycle of birth and death.
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This is a great question which brings ones thoughts close to understanding the very nature of existence.
If you were god, with a singular and all encompassesing consciousness, without any concept of a self seperate to others, then you would be alone, and eventually bored.
So we forget that we are god and variety becomes the spice of life, as ‘they’ say.
You dont’t even have to believe in anything to understand this. Just for a moment, suspend disbelief, and just toy with the idea that you’re god. Little you, capital G. But, so is everyone and everything else around you. In fact, your true self is everything, everywhere, all at once for all time.
If this is true then past lives, future lives, remember them, forsee them, it doesn’t matter. What matters is, you keep going.
As an exercise, try taking a walk around your local store with the idea in your mind that you and everyone around you are inhabited by the same entity. How does it make you feel? Are you there for them or are they there for you? Can you see yourself being seen by yourself?
I believe the closest you one can be to god, is to understand that you are it, without actually having the experience. But this knowledge is what begins to build an enlightened mind and at once this person sees the absurdity of things like war or poverty. However, other things like sexual intercourse become a little unusual.
Ultimately, you want to forget. Many will discard these words as nonsense, reinstate disbelief and carry on with the delusion for many, many lives to no end. But thats ok, for humans are but one avenue of the godly experience.
2 words: Fuckin’ awesome!
