Hard Problem of Reincarnation

The challenge of reconciling the concept of a persistent, individual consciousness or soul that transfers between physical bodies with the lack of a known physical mechanism for such transfer, and the total amnesia that accompanies it. If you don't remember being Cleopatra, in what meaningful sense were you you? The "you" that reincarnates seems to be a stripped-down, anonymous kernel of being—a metaphysical thumb drive with its data wiped, raising the question of what, if anything, makes it the same entity.

Example: "The guru said I was a scribe in Atlantis. The hard problem of reincarnation is this: without my memories, desires, or personality, that scribe and I share only the abstract concept of 'consciousness substrate.' It's like saying a formatted hard drive in a new laptop is the 'reincarnation' of an old one. Technically maybe, but functionally, who cares?"

by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026

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I was reincarnated as a Negro, now I sell drugs in the hood

A new hit Anime adaptation based off a light novel, where Japanese salary man dies from getting hit by a city bus while trying to save a woman from getting hit. He is then reborn black in Gary Indiana, and is raised by a poverty-ridden family in the hood. His father left him at a yound age, and was killed in negro combat. The protagonist seeks to avenge his father by slaying the king pin of the hood. He is able to level up his MP by selling drugs, participating in drive-bys, looting stores, and slaying baby mamas. He learns new magical abilities by doing different drugs.

Tyrell: Yo have you seen I was reincarnated as a Negro, now I sell drugs in the hood yet? I heard it is pretty good.
Jermaime: Yah nigga, I heard the protag is gucci as fuck. The intro song goes hard.

by Dirty Antwan October 7, 2025

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