The Pros and Cons of Reincarnation

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When you die, the process that is you ends. The atoms that make up your body are changed very little if at all upon the moment of death. There's no sense in modern physics in which anything like the traditional notion of reincarnation has anything, any plausibility whatsoever. I would say that and let your favorite philosopher or theologian deal with it as they will.

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