A Question of Math from a “Devil’s Advocate”

I personally believe in accounts of reincarnation, but playing the Devil’s advocate, this raises a question for me.

I will explain.

Imagine an empty room. On day one, one person enters it. On day two, a second person enters it, and so forth. By Day 10, there are now 10 people in the room. 

If you ask the 10 people, “How many people were in this room 8 days ago?” 

Only 2 people will respond, since 8 days ago, there was only 2 people in the room.

Now imagine this continues, to day 100, when you now have 100 people in the room.  You ask the group, “Who has memories of this room 100 days ago?” 

Only 1 person will respond, since only one person was in the room 100 days ago. 

Question: Where were the other 99 people, 100 days ago?

In terms of reincarnation, if the world population in the distant past could all fit in a single modern-day megacity, then where was the rest of the modern world’s population back then?

Another assumption that all the authors I have read on Past Lives and the world of the Afterlife is that humans remain human, or at least human relatable in terms of their; relative size in the environment, sky, plants, language, visual and sound range and architecture.

Other religions that accept past lives teach life-essences can pass between species.

The Projection Model of Near Death Experiences is that the persons consciousness “clothes” the afterlife experience with their personal language, culture and memories of the previous life onto it.  Perhaps because they have been there before and know how they clothed it “last time”.

This is only about 10-15%, maybe the 1 out of 10 people that have been “in the room before”.

Maybe… the other 9 out of 10 life essences didn’t have the memory of “clothing” the afterlife in humanrelatable experiences, but instead clothed it in other species-relatable qualities they do have memories from.  And because they are no longer those species, they cannot “hold onto the memory” when they come back to being human from the afterlife.

There was a philosophical argument that you can’t imagine being a bat, because as soon as you put a persons language into a bats way of seeing the world, the bat is no longer a true bat with its own inherent understanding.

Afterlife memories could be the same.  They cannot translate between species.