Atheist and agnostic views on reincarnation and consciousness

Why does it need to be attached? Can't it be inseparable from the body, without ever having been attached? I think it is this idea of "attached" that leads you to the idea that it could be detached and have a separate existence. I see consciousness as emerging from processes. In this case they are biological processes, although I don't think the biological aspect is essential. The processes are intimately connected to the physical survival of the body, so I don't see how one can make sense of these processes as detached. What's a person? If the person is a product of the processes involved in producing consciousness, then how could consciousness be anything other than personal?

But we also think of individuality as a property of systems, so doesn't that connect the consciousness to the individual? Let's look at an example. Suppose that I could write down all of my beliefs in the form of English sentences. And suppose that you could do the same. Maybe it would turn out that we produce the identical lists of sentences. Does that make our beliefs the same? I don't think so. For beliefs are relational. And where I figure in the relation in my beliefs, you would figure in the relation with your beliefs. So that would make them different beliefs.