How do Buddhists that think of karma figuratively do so about rebirth? How do Buddhists that think of karma figuratively -- non literal -- not what is ordinarily meant -- do so about rebirth? They surely cannot believe rebirth is literal, so what exactly is it?
An answer from any perspective would be most welcome.


Among these Buddhists, however, this has led to the rejection not of
non-self but of rebirth. (Historically this response was not unknown
among East Asian Buddhists, and it is not rare among Western Buddhists
today.) The evidence that the Buddha himself accepted rebirth and
karma seems quite strong, however... this sort of ‘noble lie’ justification for the Buddha teaching a doctrine he does not accept fails in the face of the evidence that he also taught it to quite advanced monastics

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/buddha/#KarReb
So I'm not asking what the Buddha thought - we don't actually know - or any specific historical Buddhists. I am just seeking clarity on how you think of rebirth without literal karma^ , pretty uninterested in its psychological / self justification aspect, thanks.
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a causal relationship between action (karma) and ‘fruit’ (phala), the
latter being an experience of pleasure, pain or indifference for the
agent of the action
I think of karma, seeds of karma, and fruits of karma as individual's action, latent effects of such action, and individual experience resulting from past action, correspondingly. Nothing more, nothing less. I don't read any unscientific mumbo-jumbo into these concepts, purely cause-and-effect.
I think of rebirth as a type of karmic process that spans multiple lifetimes. An action is performed in one life, its seeds remain latent after death, then in another life the effects of those actions influence, shape, and configure individual's background, environment, and therefore personality, in a certain way. Nothing more, nothing less. I don't read any unscientific mumbo-jumbo into these concepts, purely cause-and-effect.