[wrenjmerg]

Yes, that and more. Other abstract things, emergent phenomena, are included. For example, you beat your kid and make her into a distrustful, angry person, which affects her relationships for the rest of her life, potentially, which affect innumerable people in a potentially infinate number of ways. Patterns of behavior tend to replicate. Not in a strict deterministic way, but tendencies.

Ok so you beat your kid who, let's say, turns out to be an angry, bitter person who beats his own kids who in tern become bitter, spiteful people. How does this explain rebirth?