The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 220 of 254
Reincarnation is not survival of the self
Akong and Ringu’s lack of any felt connection with their previous incarnations, the absence of any clear evidence that someone even is a reincarnation, and the no-self doctrine of anattā: all these suggest that, whatever reincarnation is supposed to be, it is not about the survival of the self in any standard sense.