>>75722248I wanted to talk about my beliefs after death so I'm using this as a springboard.
I believe in reincarnation but not the normal spiritual reincarnation like you find in Hinduism, Buddhism and the such. I call it scientific reincarnation because I don't believe in any supernatural or non-scientific explanations of things and I came up with it when I was in my phase of life where I attempted suicide twice because I really didn't want there to be nothing for me after death. I just wanted the pain and sadness to end but I didn't want to go, so I tried my best to reason that it would be okay after I die.
Firstly we have to understand what we are as living creatures and as humans. What am I? Well I am a human. But there are lots of humans, so what am I? Well I am unique set of DNA expressed into a physical form. But my body can act on its own, make my heart beat, my eyes blink, my cell replicate without me doing anything. So my body is not me. Well then I am the brain which controls the body, but that can't be true since we know we can remove substantial portions of the brain without damage to the personality. So I'm not a brain. Well what about that part of the brain that DOES contain the personality? Well if you took that out of my brain, I wouldn't be in my body but you can't put me into another brain because I wouldn't be there any longer. So what am I? What disappeared when you removed that part of the brain I exist in? The electricity. I am electricity. I am energy vibrating at a specific frequency in a specific sequence.
Now we know that the Law of the conservation of mass and energy says that energy cannot be created or destroyed. Therefore when I die, the electricity which constitutes me, is not destroyed. It has to go somewhere. It must be transferred elsewhere.
Secondly, we don't know what happens at the start or end of our universe. We have some theories but nothing for sure but relying on that same law of conservation of mass and energy, we know that the universe cannot create or destroy anything. One of the theories of the universe says that it goes in an infinite cycle of Big Bangs which expand the universe to it's maximal extent and then it begins to retract into what is called the Big Crunch where all the energy and matter in the universe converges into a singularity where it then Big Bangs again and the cycle renews for eternity.
So if the universe cycle is eternal and infinite and I am a construct of energy that can be transferred back into an electrical system, therefore I MUST be reconstructed at some other point in this infinite cycle since as time approaches infinity within a random system all probabilities approach 1 and I will also be constructed with all my memories, feelings and personhood and I will live again and die again, eternally.