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What does that even mean? What would be the mechanism?
If you have two competing hypotheses which are experimentally undistinguishable, Occam's Razor requires you prefer the hypothesis that makes fewer assumptions. Positing reincarnation adds a lot of rules to the universe which it doesn't really need for it to function the way we already see it function.
Does occam's razor require you to prefer the likelier hypothesis? I don't see why I should act as if the more likely case is definitely true.