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In reply to the discussion: Searching For The Science Behind Reincarnation [View all]Silent3
(15,909 posts)...not at all in practical sense for extracting and reconstituting old information), there's very little reason to imagine that there would be any mechanism for connecting a new-born human mind to the specific information of any one specific person (or sequence of people) in the past.
Even more untenable is the idea that such a mechanism would provide exclusive access from one present mind to one past mind, so that one could speak of that earlier mind as one's own earlier life. If a hundred different people could remember being George Washington, in what sense would his life be a past life belonging to any of them?
Mere access to old thoughts and memories of dead people, even if true, wouldn't really be reincarnation -- remarkable, yes, but not reincarnation.
And that kind of access itself remains highly suspect, even if one can posit a very tenuous basis in QM for only part of what would be needed for such a mechanism to exist.