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« Last post by obsidian on November 19, 2025, 04:03:33 PM »You could be reincarnated as a cockroach.Argument Against Reincarnation
If we assume the universe has a creator or a creative intelligence behind its laws, reincarnation still doesn’t make sense — not philosophically, not scientifically, and not logically.
1. The Motivation Problem: Why would a creator design reincarnation?
People often say: “A tree is just the result of natural processes.”
Sure — but that assumes the natural processes themselves just exist.
Reincarnation is completely different. It requires the creator to intentionally design a system where souls jump between bodies.
What’s the purpose?
Common claim: “Souls reincarnate to learn lessons.”
But that falls apart:
• Why design a system where humans forget everything they supposedly learned?
• Why would someone reincarnate as an ant or cockroach — what lesson is learned there?
• Why is the system filled with randomness, trauma, and inequality?
• Why do different cultures invent totally contradictory rules for reincarnation?
A system without memory is not a learning system.
A purposeful creator would not design something so incoherent.
2. The Mechanism Problem: How would reincarnation actually work?
For reincarnation to be real, all of the following must exist:
• A soul independent of the brain
• A method for the soul to detach at death
• A method for it to enter another body
• Compatibility across completely different species
This fails immediately when you consider biology.
Human → Cockroach?
A cockroach has ~1 million neurons.
A human has ~86 billion.
That’s like trying to run Windows 11 on a calculator.
Human → Ant?
Even fewer neurons.
Human → Amoeba?
One cell. No brain at all.
There is no biological hardware to support consciousness, memory, or identity in these organisms.
Scientifically, there is no workable mechanism for reincarnation.
3. The Scale Problem: Population numbers destroy the theory
If all living beings reincarnate, consider actual biological quantities:
• Humans: ~8 billion
• Ants: ~20,000,000,000,000,000 (20 quadrillion)
• Cockroaches: trillions
• Amoebae: effectively infinite numbers
Reincarnation must explain:
• Where all the extra souls come from
• Why a human soul would spend billions of lifetimes as microbes
• Why humans are an extreme minority of “soul slots”
• How “moral lessons” fit into microbial lifetimes
No reincarnation system explains this.
It’s mathematically unworkable.
4. The Identity Problem: What is actually reincarnating?
If a person loses:
• memory
• personality
• emotion
• preferences
• consciousness
• cognitive abilities
…then what is left to “reincarnate”?
If nothing that makes you you carries over, then reincarnation is just the birth of a new organism with no real connection to the old one.
Calling that “you” is meaningless.
Conclusion
Even if a creator designed the universe:
• there is no rational motivation for reincarnation,
• no biological or physical mechanism behind it,
• no numerical or population-level scalability,
• and no coherent identity that survives from one life to another.

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