^ to be fair, energy is just energy. The matter that makes us up came from inorganic sources, and constantly leaves us to be somewhere else (a body is always in exchange with its environment). It's not "anybody's" energy, it's just energy.
The way I see it, similar to what Jess said, is that the subjective experience goes on, but nothing that makes me into what I am is carried over. The reasoning is simple: I'm having a subjective experience and I'm a human, therefore it's likely that other humans have one too, and it also seems likely to me that the current subjective experience is not the first one for me. The reason why nothing carries over is because as far as we know, everything that makes an organism is physical (brain, genome etc) and that is lost at death. So I would expect to continue living after death as someone else (not necessarily human), but without any awareness of my previous lives, and with a different personality/everything.
Not just similar, that sounds exactly like what my belief is. It's explained somewhat differently than I usually attempt too, perhaps even superior to my way of explaining it since I usually use the soul as a metaphor for what's here referred to as 'subjective experience', but that might be a better way of referring to it than using the word soul which is highly tied up in other religious meanings. The problem with explaining my view of reincarnation is there isn't an English word that describes the continuation of personal conscious experience being referred too here, that is separate to personality and our conventional sense of the mind. There are English words that are close, like consciousness, sentience, etc. But they dont distinguish between the observation of apparent consciousness and sentience in other humans or perhaps some animals by individual humans, and sentience as personal experienced by oneself from which questions can be derived such as 'why am I me? Why am I not anyone else when I could just as easily be someone else with their opinions and their beliefs and their memories, but be conscious from their point of view potentially thinking similar things about me'. Even saying that has various problems caused by inadequate language in that there's no separate words for 'me' and 'I', that distinguish from me as an individual human with all the memories and personality that goes with it. And 'me' the consciousness that is potentially separate to 'me' the individual as formerly described, a consciousness that is experiencing the thoughts and emotions of the me formerly described. both me's can be thought of as me from their own perspectives. But one is me my brains reactions to stimuli and mind expressed by my unique neural network. And the other me that is being referred to by questions like 'why am I me as opposed to anyone else? Surely I could just as easily be experiencing existence from the perspective of anyone else to have ever lived'.
We don't have adequate words to describe the differences here. Even comprehending the difference is made difficult because describing the difference to another who hasn't happened to stumble on such awareness of the difference for themselves, is made very problematic by the limitations of our language. I wonder if any other language offers words that discern the difference im describing and assume you are too. I'm sure if you are referring to what I describe then this explanation will make perfect sense. For anyone who isn't following what I'm trying to get at, try looking up the swampman paradox on Wikipedia, I happened to think of the paradox by chance a long time ago and eventually discovered not at all to my surprise that someone else thought of it first, and fortuitously gave is a name.
Anyhow, yes, it's that me and that you that I believe lives on. After the other me and you dies. And likely has lived infinite existances, every existence it possibly could experience over and over for all time provided the universe (the big universe not just our little observerable universe, the universe of all and everything ever) provides for such cyclical infinities of existence. Seeing as every possibility is certain to eventuate providing for every version of our lives to be available for us to experience at every point in history as well as every other alien history and alien version of our lives to ever potentially exist.
In short, while you wont be reincarnated as you, you also by sheer probably improbably chance will experience your life over again as well as every variation of it as well as every similar kind of person that could exist and house your continued experience and consciousness as well as all compatible alien life and all compatible life on earth as well as every other earth that isn't our earth but yet is identical in all ways but you to the extent that such is possible.
Wild huh? Isn't the universe awesome in its possibilities. The only thing more awesome with possibility is infinite time and cyclical multiple universes.
