The Hard Science of Reincarnation

what if there's some hitherto unknown mechanism by which memories even private conscious memories of internal emotional events are encoded into, not only the brain, but somehow the space or objects or "spacetime medium" (or some other field) perhaps local to the area where the person who had those memories lived.

And what if that sometimes a brain particularly a brain that's in a very open and unfixed state such as the brain of a small child or infant is able to somehow access and, perhaps confusedly, read from this external data store of information and memory and perhaps that child confuses it as its own experience and perhaps the only language and way that we can culturally relate to those experiences is the language of reincarnation so people need to express this perhaps rarely occurring phenomena through that language.

And what if this informational field is the same type that's also accessible by any mind if you're able to tune into that informational field.

It's just that perhaps the number of accessible microstates of the infant's mind crosses a more diverse set of channels so that it's more likely to spontaneously access that without a deliberate intention. perhaps such information-seeking or structure-seeking behavior is also a natural consequence of a child's minds aggressive need to structure the world and form its own burgeoning sense of identity so perhaps it will eagerly latch onto and attempt to incorporate any information, however it's able to access that, into its own understanding of itself in the world. and maybe the minds of some children are able to, somehow, more likely access such an informational field. But nevertheless can probably be accessed by anyone with the correct tuning.

I'm not a skeptic of the original claim but I think this and other theories could provide interesting alternate explanations for the phenomena that we currently commonly culturally label as reincarnation phenomena. and that these alternate theories could be useful in forming a larger picture of what's actually going on. I'm not biased against any cultural or religious belief in reincarnation and I'm not a skeptical of that myself... I just think it's useful to consider what alternate possible theories could give rise to this and might also be kind of more testable than sort of waiting for someone's soul to come back. Perhaps, without claiming to have any understanding of the relevant mechanisms on a level much deeper than what I've described here, one test of all this could be if two or more children somehow acquire the same memories of the same people giving rise to the idea that it's not a soul that's come back as them it's simply that the children have somehow managed to access the same data in the informational field somehow.