I was just reading about simulated reality, some pontificating about how reincarnation might work. Exactly as you've described here. Say there's a bus speeding towards you and as soon as that bus makes contact with your body (killing it) you're instantly reincarnated in the middle of another life, with another identity. Like nothing happened. You just continue existing, there is no death, your consciousness is just shifted around. If all of reality is a simulation, it's just a matter of 'deleting' your knowledge of that previous life, 'downloading' a new set of memories and experiences, and placing you into that current incarnation and pressing 'play'.

Unfortunately, that's the truth. I wish it weren't, that people could just discuss and debate with open minds and leave expectations and belief out of it.

Personally, I do believe in reincarnation. Even if you're a hardcore atheist and believe that all we are is worm food, or ashes scattered to the wind, a piece of our physical body is absorbed back into the earth and continues on. Then, if you believe that we all have a soul or spirit, and it's made up of some kind of energy, well, energy cannot be destroyed.