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I’ll offer this (even though I fully believe life is prevalent in the universe): Who says you have to be reincarnated in chronological order? You could be reincarnated a dinosaur. A microbe in the primordial soup. A lizard 100 years from now. An armored fish.
So the odds of landing on “human” are pretty small.
If microbes were in play for reincarnation, their sheer numbers would make it almost inevitable that you’d reincarnate as one
Does anything say you have to be a higher life form?
If you're going back in time it's possible you can end up in different time lines like maybe you could rencarnate into a timeline where Stalin never came into power because you caused him to become the dictator he's known as today or maybe you could rencarnate as Adolfs mother and have to raise your child knowing the monster he will become shit that actually sounds like a good novel I want to read
I think with reincarnation you don’t get to have any knowledge of anything other than your current existence.