WAKING LIFE -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY

I mean, it's impossible. Think about it. The world population has doubled in the past 40 years, right? So if you really believe in that ego thing of one eternal soul,

[Ethan Hawke] Mm-hmm.

[Julie Delpy] then you only have a 50% chance of your soul being over 40, and for it to be over 150 years old, then it's only one out of six.

[Ethan Hawke] Right, so what are you saying then? Reincarnation doesn't exist, or that we're all young souls like where half of us are first round humans?

[Julie Delpy] No, no.  What I'm trying to say is that somehow I believe reincarnation is just a poetic expression of what collective memory really is.

There was this article by this biochemist that I read not long ago, and he was talking about how when a member of our species is born, it has a billion years of memory to draw on. And this is where we inherit our instincts.

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