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Reincarnation is an anglicized word of Latin derivation, meaning "reinfleshment," the coming again into a human body of an excarnate soul.

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The fact that most of the matter that humans are made up of will most likely be reused by and even reconstructed into other organisms may be true, but it doesn't follow that reincarnation is inevitable.

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Sexual innuendo.

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Quote: from InsaneBlue at 2:19 pm on Aug. 26, 2008

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It is remotely remotely remotely remotely possible for all the atoms of one persons brain to be recycled into an identical brain. But for these atoms to be arranged the same way, the two individuals sharing these brain particles would need to be genetically identical (never mind how you're going to construct the new brain from all the particles of the old). Then you would need nature to treat it the exact same way. This is the only way to have a brain be identical to one before.  

 And your cyclic idea of everything happening the same way after every Big Bang is quite interesting, but it is contradicted by our current understanding of quantam physics in which effect happens without cause. Take Uranium for instance, which is a radioactive material and therefore has deteriorating atoms. We can predict how quickly it will deteriorate, but there is no way of knowing when atom A and when atom B are going to go poof. They seemingly break without cause. So if nature is capable of such true spontanuity (sp?) that would mean that things would never happen the same way, even if set up the same way. In fact, it would always be very drastically different, as when everything is as dense as we believe it was before the Big Bang, quantum mechanics and the movement of particles have cosmic significance.  

 

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I understand there may only be an infinitesimal chance of those atoms making up another consciously equipped brain after death, and yet.. Perhaps in a Universe of which potentially will never truly "end", those atoms will have to make up such a brain simply as there is only a finite amount of atoms in this Universe.  

That spontaneity apparent in nature may be a result of the specific variables defined by the big bang. And if that same big bang occurred again, is it not possible for the same events of spontaneity to occur?

I guess this is all coming down to one's belief of fate. A predetermined Universe means that anything seemingly 'spontaneous' is merely a result of our ignorance.

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I suppose you're right. Once every 9999999999999 septillion years everything would happen exactly the same way, creepy.

And they think that this spontaneity is what caused the big bang in the first place, but I'm going to go ahead and say that your, my, and Uncle Steve's guesses are just as good as any scientific consortium's. Trying to look beyond the big bang at this point is just crazy.

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