Yeah, this is why reincarnation tropes always creep me the fuck out. Amnesia tropes often do, too.

It’s not just you.

Fortunately I don’t think this is actually a thing that really happens, personally, so you don’t have to worry about that particular horror. Just regular nonexistence (which is also pretty terrifying, but still better than your corpse walking around and other people thinking it’s the same person…).

– Frost

You’re right, you couldn’t be you. There’s no reason or evidence at all to support the idea that one can be reborn.

I mean. It likely is. Like the rest of religious and supernatural mumbo jumbo. don’t get me wrong I like buddhism as a philosophy but once you get into rebirth and all its pointless. As you point out if it is true it is not functionally different than dying and going no where anyone. If your ego and memories die. you die.

Lucky you, as far as anyone knows, it is.

This question gives really strong Dolly the sheep vibes.

No, you would just be essentially another soul in the same exact body

I wish rebirth were a lie.

Uh, do you have some kind of evidence that it isn’t?

You don’t need to wait for rebirth as this pretty much already is the case.

You are not the same person you were five minutes ago, or five years ago. Your body has replaced countless cells, your memories have shifted, your preferences have changed and the pattern of activity in your brain is different. There is no fixed, unchanging core that stays identical from one moment to the next. What we call “you” is a continuously updating process, not a solid object that persists unchanged.

There is no single place behind your face where a self sits and watches. Experience (consciousness) arises from vast numbers of neurons interacting in particular patterns. The sense of being a unified “I” is just something the brain constructs. It feels solid from the inside, but it is a generated appearance rather than a central entity.

Well you suck, so thats a good thing.