I think the problem isn't so much what we might perceive as reincarnation, as it is the Western object oriented paradigm shaping our lives. We tend to think of the entities/nodes as primary over the networks, but it really is a fairly primitive belief system, currently causing all sorts of social and political ills.
For one thing, these little devices in our pockets can transmit surprising amounts of information in fairly minimal radio waves, which is just lower frequencies of the light waves we are bathed in. Given we have been evolving for billions of years, to assume nature/biology hasn't incorporated any of this into our neural networks is stupid.
The problem is more that as tree dwelling quadrupeds who transitioned to land dwelling bipeds, our focal vision for judging distance and tactile abilities, for swinging from branches, shifted to the ability to effectively throw sticks, so our object oriented, linear, goal seeking nature tends to make us extremely reductionist in our cognitive models. From rocks, to individuals, to atoms, we think it's all about the things, not the networks. Organisms over the ecosystems defining them. When the reality is they are two sides of the same coin.
In a nutshell, sentience is all in our brains about like the internet is all in our phones.
When you step back a bit and sense those "floaters" in our vision are other entities, people, whatever, interesecting our own, then you start to escape the prison of selfhood and realize the actual factors at work. Such as why people so often act as herds, when they proclaim their sovereign individuality.
Why individuality is itself a social control mechanism, effectively isolating us and making us that much more dependent on the institutional structures for connections.
Even our concept of time, as the point of the present moving past to future, rather than change turning future to past, with the future in front and the past behind, is because we see ourselves as distinct entities moving through our world, than intimately bound up in it.
Logically a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. So again, even our religious models are based around this singular being as somehow distinct, ideal and above, rather than the essence of life bubbling up, as it evidently does.
There are so many other aspects, but it does seem we are headed for some zombie apocalypse, as all the bs is spun like cobwebs around our brains.
