Seems Clancy doesn't like the idea of rebirth.
If he is a reductionist, then he will be more likely to follow the "physicalist" approach to psychology, rather than the "dualist" approach that will separate the mind from the body.
It's hard to consider the mind as being separate from the body, because the brain is effected directly by the conditions it is in. If you pass a small current over a small area of the brain, you won't be ably to say your own name. So clearly the mind is something intrinsic to the body.
But on the other hand, we don't know nearly enough about the brain to say that emotions and thoughts are simply chemical impulses or an elaborate endocrine hormonal system, or whatever I'm supposed to write here, I'm way to tired to be online...
So, the question concerning rebirth remains: is the mind necessarily intrinsic to the body? If not, then a separate entity exists and can be reborn, or whatever happens these days.
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