The Five Aggregates, Three Characteristics & Anattā
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Summary
The confusion starts with the Thai word winyaan and the Pali viññāṇa meaning quite different things.
In the Buddhist frame viññāṇa is one of the five aggregates, conditioned within dependent origination — not a free-floating soul.
Ghosts, petas, asuras and devas all have the full five aggregates. None is a lone consciousness, and that one point clears up most of the muddle.
Key points
The problem begins in translation
The same word means different things in two systems, which makes the opening question wrong from the start.
Anattā does not mean no rebirth
What is denied is a permanent owner, not a continuing process.
Other realms sit inside the same frame
Having the full five aggregates means ghosts and devas are not exceptions to anattā.
Dependent origination answers what continues
Not a soul relocating, but conditions handing on to conditions.