If the Dalai Lama is fully identifying with his role, the role provides all purposes, and the cultural environment allows continuity, then reincarnation is possible, no?
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Replying to @davidarredondo
I know, right? Reincarnation does obviously not make sense if you identify with your personal memories, traits or genetics, but it works in several other modes of self identification.
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Replying to @Plinz
I think the Japanese are ahead of the rest of the planet on this. Don't they have full size mechanical versions of historical heroes- some that speak famous platitudes?
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Replying to @davidarredondo
No, these are called actors, and they are meant to provide cultural references, not reincarnations.
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Replying to @Plinz
My limited understanding of Shintoism suggests that all things have embodied spirit. Do you know if this is correct?
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Replying to @davidarredondo
I don't understand Shintoism sufficiently to have any opinion. I would not know what it means for a thing to have embodied spirit in such a context.
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Replying to @davidarredondo
What does being alive mean for a Shintoist? Most people I know are quite puzzled about what it means to be alive, so I would probably not trust the translations without understanding the translator's set of perspectives either...
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Presumably, a Shintoist knows a property that distinguishes living animals from dead animals, so not all things will be alive in that sense. The Shintoists may be referring to a different property if it is shared by all things in their ontology, for example state evolution.
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Replying to @Plinz
You must be correct because as I understand it, rocks, trees, & mountains are "alive". That the universe is made of ontologically foundational "stuff" that is alive and potentially conscious. Shinto ground is thus* *conscious* & *reality is it's " product".
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Replying to @davidarredondo
Again, if the Shintoists are able to distinguish between an unconscious human and an unconscious one, then either the word "conscious" means something different in this context, or the word "ground". Ground might not mean substrate but mind, and reality is a model in the mind?
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