people are reincarnated, without any possibility of remembering their past lives
What does that even mean? What would be the mechanism?
If you have two competing hypotheses which are experimentally undistinguishable, Occam’s Razor requires you prefer the hypothesis that makes fewer assumptions. Positing reincarnation adds a lot of rules to the universe which it doesn’t really need for it to function the way we already see it function.
I’m not sure what the point of your comment is. I said myself that it is unclear what the meaning of the situation would be, and I certainly did not say that the second theory was more probable than the first.
What does that even mean? What would be the mechanism?
If you have two competing hypotheses which are experimentally undistinguishable, Occam’s Razor requires you prefer the hypothesis that makes fewer assumptions. Positing reincarnation adds a lot of rules to the universe which it doesn’t really need for it to function the way we already see it function.
Does occam’s razor require you to prefer the likelier hypothesis? I don’t see why I should act as if the more likely case is definitely true.
I’m not sure what the point of your comment is. I said myself that it is unclear what the meaning of the situation would be, and I certainly did not say that the second theory was more probable than the first.