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Re:Ask HN: Where does consciousness come from? by rodrigo on Friday December 19, 2008 @11:36AM (#403489)
I dont view reincarnation as "me" waking up in some other body in some other time; IMHO it has to be on a gene level, "me" is just a bunch of genes wich have learned and contribute to the general pool. Or something like that.
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Re:Ask HN: Where does consciousness come from? by yters on Friday December 19, 2008 @11:40AM (#403492)
Well, then anything adaptive is "reincarnation." You might as well just call it "adaptation," then, instead of redefining another word.
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Re:Ask HN: Where does consciousness come from? by rodrigo on Friday December 19, 2008 @01:40PM (#403659)
Thats it, i normally dont say "reincarnation". It seems to me that words like that were used to make graspable a concept thats hard to grasp; but it lost its sense when someboy tried to hard to make it fit in some view of things.

Edit: It can also be called Evolution.

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