Inspired by this article about a jellyfish that doesn’t die of old age, injury or poor conditions, it just reverts back to a juvenile state and is reborn genetically identical. If you could be reborn, as you, would you want to?

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

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    12 hours ago

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

    • CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.worldOP
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      12 hours ago

      Really? My memories in someone else’s body isn’t me either. There is the biological me at birth, then the conscious me of experience and memory. I think they both play a part of the older you, but being reborn as baby you is still literally the original “you” at this point.