system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[General] If reincarnation involves souls going from a dying being to a newly born one, where do all the new souls come from, given that there are many more living beings in the world now than there were in the past?
gpt
It's a nonlinear universe. You have roughly equal chance of being reborn in the past as you are of being reborn in the future. You might even be reincarnated *in the same time* and live contemporary with a few of your other selves.