LmB@lemmy.zip to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 days agoSuicide rates would likely rise sharply if reincarnation were ever proven.message-squaremessage-square249linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareSuicide rates would likely rise sharply if reincarnation were ever proven.LmB@lemmy.zip to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 days agomessage-square249linkfedilink
minus-squareBurgerBaron@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·19 days agoI mean I don’t see any difference between death and reincarnating without past memories.
minus-square「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」(he/him)@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·19 days agoIn that case, people with retrograde amnesia are already dead and we should just consider them a new legal person…
minus-squareRiskable@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·19 days agoYes. 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.
minus-squarelil_baka@ani.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·18 days agoIf you lose all your memories due to amnesia, you will still be you, experiencing reality as you, just with your “hard drive” being wiped.
minus-squareBurgerBaron@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·18 days agoI still don’t see any difference between death and reincarnating without past memories.
minus-squarelil_baka@ani.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·18 days agoIt’s like being awake and not remember something vs sleeping and not having dreams.
I mean I don’t see any difference between death and reincarnating without past memories.
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.