I don't know. I would want to die entirely so I can be reborn as something or someone else.

Its all fun and games until you grow up and realize that the last "you" from before that you don't remember and have no affiliation with now was a serial killer or something. Two consecutive life sentences just got a whole other meaning.

Also, I guess after decades and decades of this you'd have to start doing DNA testing before having sex because - you wouldn't remember all the offspring you have had or the cousins or whatever (this is assuming your family and everyone else is doing this same rebirth cycle thing)

And how would that work? Are you stuck with the same family forever? Count me out I don't want to go through childhood again like that.

Imagine if you were someone like Donald Trump or Jeffery Epstein and then come back as a normal person like you are now with the same morals and belief system and then have to come to terms with that. I don't know if I could.

Even if you don't remember or feel that way now it was still you

I'm not perfect by any measure of the word but I do feel good about having a lot of the beliefs that I do. I know people who grew up just like I did except they drank the koolaid and turned out with some shitty beliefs.

What if you ended up like that the second time? What if you turned into a Nazi or something that would be horrible.

I agree with what one of the other commenters said though, it would be so cool to see just how much our personality and behavior is affected by external factors.

And especially interesting to see how much of it is not.

Sure, might as well

In a way that is temporally continuous? No way. As long as I'm always dead by around 2012? Yeah, sure.

Reminds me of the end of the game SOMA.

Being reborn without memory is pretty much the same as dying as you are not your body, you are your memories

No memory = no point in doing it.

If you don't remember something, it might as well have never happened.

Besides, I'm already sick of this time around, and my genetics were fucked to begin with. Give me a redo with my memories and a new body, and then we might have something.

Probably not, but it's interesting to think about the implications here. If the new you is the same except for the memories and experiences, then what you become is a function of your environment, and if enough experiments are run on this over successive generations then an accurate and comprehensive model of your behavior and thinking could be obtained.

So I don't know if this has been done before but I have this idea for a fictional setting where there's people like this, who have made themselves this kind of immortal, and tried to set up automated systems to ensure they have some kind of continuity, raising themselves with robots, biometric access, keeping a journal and such. But then maybe the people excluded from these systems will have figured out over long periods of time that the immortals are predictable, since they are the same people repeated, and developed ritualistic cargo-cult-esque ways of interacting with them designed to produce the results they want, maybe even speaking words in a language they don't understand and just knowing that those particular words will be interpreted the right way because the person being spoken to has been a known quantity for centuries or millennia.

People are getting caught up on the "no memory" part but there is no reason you couldn't communicate with yourself between lives. Sort of preserving your memories that way.

That really interesting to consider.

Would the new you even care?

Edit: Just the physical you, genetic and presumably epigenetic, no memory.

Without the memories, that simply wouldn't be me though. After all, twins that share the entirety of their genetic material aren't the same person either.

I also just wouldn't do it, my genetics aren't anything special that's worth preserving.

Not without keeping my memory, no. I definitely wish for immortality, just from a curiosity perspective. I don't think I necessarily deserve it, I am just so interested in seeing how things turn out in the future.

I would be like the Avatar and wondering what my previous versions of me did. Would be so weird but would be interesting.

no

If my memories are kept, I can only imagine how terrifying it would be to fall asleep and die one night, only to wake up to having zero bodily control and everything is just blury just a foot away, low resolution, and seeing in grayscale. That would be terrifying, so no unless I don't remember a thing. Then it wouldn't matter what my answer is now because I wouldn't remember it.

Oh hell naw.

Depends on if you keep your memories or not each rebirth.

nah humanity is one of the most painful things Ive ever read of or come into contact with . Im actually very eager to see the end of my life cause then I wont have to deal with all this genocidal , selfish, illogical bullshit from people.

Also why would I do this without keeping my memories? Absolutely not. I need to remember why I want to stay awau from other people and what other people have done to me that has led to me becomjng this sad sad state...

Edit: also let me clarify, I am certainly no saint or a messiah or anyone or anything special. Im just some dude. But Ive come to realization.... that Im fatigued and jaded by the humans Ive come into contact with in my life including my parenrs who have practicallt ostracized me and the 'friends' who I had who ghosted me or betrayed me. And Im tired of this abyss of loneliness I always appear to be stuck in no matter what I do to just be confident and go out more and to be friendly even trying to just be more genuine- it all just never works for me...and....Im tired of it all. Im so tired of it all.

I dont mean to be a meanie to anyone who reads this comment , I wish you all well. I wish you all had better lives than I have had so far and than I will have IF I keep on living (probably wont happen but ...so be it....I tried. I failed. And Im sorry. It is what it is) Just please know: Im tired. Im so tired. Im only 30 but I know for a fact Im not long for this world . Sadly. Ive been through some things I cant even type here without being banned forever....

I wish you all the best in your endeavors or if you I dont knkw choose to be reincarnated like this lol. Bye everyone. Peace 🤟🏿🫂😮‍💨

These ones expect to be "reborn" indefinitely, with memory. These ones expect some bad existences but probably on the whole existence is good.

God no, I don't even want to live this life let alone living more!

Nope!

I already do that. And like the jelly fish I just don't remember.

I don't think it matters if you don't have memory. it lacks your ego and not make any decisions based on your experiences. Its basically like saying would you be ok with a clone made of you.

..IF it is just your body coming back and nothing or your mind that it isn’t me coming back.

There are already way too many humans on this planet now. That would just mean that this planet would have 120 Billion people on it.

Sounds like cloning.

We already have a way of doing that but in a evolutionary more successfull way. It's called fucking and having offspring. Some people opt in doing that, others dont.

If the memory erased thing was off the table we'd have a different talk but parents raising kids and make them learn from their experience is as close as it gets. With access to all sorts of info our way of doing it is even better. One thing im truly missing though is passing learned skills like guitar or muscles to our clones. Re-learning all that shit is a waste of time.

More time to do more stuff, so yeah. There's billions of things you can be famous for. Tackling one at a time sounds fun.

Assuming reset is not messy, though.

Edit: Without memory I suppose my plan wouldn't work that well.