[Sydneyfonzi]

The Buddha apparently looked inside himself for something that could transmigrate and found nothing.

This is a fact that I consider as such. Also, if the Buddha didn't found nothing, it has to be considered to be relevant for the rebirth ideas.

And yet, this life is not impotent. What we do here has countless effects into the future, so we need to behave ethically if peace is to be achieved. No need to bring this, necessarily, into the after death realm. It can be framed in a single life time. The theory [as a body of proved facts] of Complex Systems can give light into this fact.

What then, carries on if it's not one's consciousness or spirit? Yes. But this spirit is "transcribed" into actions and behaviors that influence social order and has an impact in behaviour and social construction of behavior patterns.

Something passes from the poem teacher to the student. It's just sound waves, but they're in a very particular pattern, so they have certain effects on the listener. The listener experiences those effects and passes them on to others by recreating the sound patterns. That's rebirth without transmigration, as I understand it so far.

What else is there to a human being except the input from the 5 physical senses and one's mental consciousness? All of these things depend upon the body for existence, and when the body breaks down, those things dissipate, too. Time needed to digest this concepts...

Nevertheless, it is important what one says and does, because the effects are potentially endless. True but with certain caution. Effects are not so stable or completely under accurate prediction. Like Milinda case number 8, as far as I understand it.