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That sounds extraordinarily arbitrary. Who decides what counts as a "level up"? Does that mean if you start as a bacteria you're stuck like that for a few thousand or million cycles? How would you earn enough karma points to level up from being a bacteria? What counts as "deeper and more meaningful lifetimes" if you are a bacteria?
Apologies, I totally missed the most essential part of this all:
Well, you do, ultimately. Remember, you're talking about a system where there is agency between lifetimes as well. I'm not familiar enough with non-human karmic mechanics to definitively tell you, but in most systems it's that you a "burning off" the karma of being en evil asshole by being demoted from human to less sentient lifeforms. So sending Hitler or Cecil Rhodes or Andrew Jackson would then indeed spend 40,000 lifetimes being killed over and over again before getting back in the running to have a central nervous system.
Exactly and the math doesn't give this theory a chance really, unless humans create the sentience. Coming back as "anything" would now include the bacteria and whatever else from other planets. Which even doubled, you would have to wait until entire universes recycle.
Does "waiting" have any meaning in this metaphysics? Arguably not.