Before saying “yes”: or “no” we need to examine the “stuff” of souls in its physical form. If given the soul is the mind and the mind without the brain is the electical energy that flits around it, then as energy cannot be destroyed, but only changes form, then yes, reincarnation is possible. This would involve the same energy in an unchanged state entering the gray matter of a newly formed fetus. Difficult? Yes, nearly impossible, but not impossible given the very nature of energy. How the energy transfers from the dying body to the fetus at the time of the fireing of the first neuron is the difficult part.
For the religious, this phrase is uttered twice in “The Bible,” once by an angel and once by Christ, “For with God, nothing is impossible.”
Religious or not, I love this phrase as what seemed impossible just ten years ago we are finding is possible in science and technology.
The Dali Lama is the epitome of a reincarnation example, as to be the Dali Lama, the individual would have first have had to prove prior life experiences.
For a soul to maintain it’s energy in an unchanged state must be like seeing to it that an icecube not melt in a fire. It can be done by protecting the icecube from the environment. Difficult, yes, but it could be done, which is why reincarnation must be so rare.
The scary part for me would be the timing of the energy entering the body of the fetus, as once the brain is formed (though growing), the body already has a energy (a soul). Would the energy mix to synthesize a new soul? Would the reincarnated soul push out the new soul-technically murder? Or can only a give amount of energy occupy the space of the mind and whatever is generated occupies this or whatever makes it to the synapses first is the “winner” of the brain? The energy generated to fire the first neuron then is the birth of the soul. Science must have a way to show this occuring during fetal development. If you used energy from your own mind to fire this neuron, would you in essence be in two bodies? Would the baby take on your personality traits or would the makeup of the rest of the baby’s brain and energy generating processes overwhelm that one nueron? Or does it obtain more energy by firing from one synapse to another? Are the souls of identical twins then one identity or two as they both came from the same initial energy source or does the source change by the time the brain is formed and/or over time? Or are we truely only what we eat, wherein energy comes only from caloric intake to make the mind? But as energy takes the path of least resistance, isn’t it easier to use energy already used in a mind? Nature is rarely wasteful, so it would make sense to recycle this energy. Then again, everything in nature is in a state of atrophy (change) and for anything to remain unchanged, again must be rare, but not impossible. (Whew) that was a fun ride, lol…