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This is an excellent question, and one that is difficult to answer. And the answer depends on one's personal paradigm.
I believe that our existence is related to two substances (I am searching in vain for a better word, I am not a native speaker, sorry for inconvenience) - infinite potentiality and universal consciousness. Some people think that Infinite Potentiality (which, as I think after reading some of P. J. Carroll's books, some call Chaos) is an attribute of Universal Consciousness. But I think that infinite, unlimited potentiality allows also for the existence of the Universe without any consciousness.
However, almost every thinking being can notice that there is at least one consciousness - he or she himself. So if there is at least one consciousness, the concept of Universal Consciousness makes sense - even if it is only a mathematical construction - as a set union or a direct sum of individual consciousnesses. Even if Chaos were the primary substance, we obviously exist in a variant of the Universe equipped with Universal Consciousness - whatever it is. And this should be the subject of investigation (whatever activity we imagine under it) - what properties does Universal Consciousness have. Here, considerations inspired by topology come in handy - is this consciousness continuous, or on the contrary, composed of isolated components?
Now, many concepts and approaches from physics, mathematics and computer science are suitable as inspiration. I believe that all existing things (regardless of how we answer the question of what actually exists) are instances of this Universal Consciousness, limited by the causal conditions of their emergence. Similarly, as differential equations (e.g. Schrodinger's wave equation) can have their initial and boundary conditions. Chaos has no limiting conditions, Universal Consciousness has one that it is a consciousness. We have many more, for example, we are humans, women or men, we were born into a certain environment and time, we are a product of the evolution of life itself, ... and therefore we have an extremely long causal chain or rather many mutually quantum-entangled causal chains of events behind us.
When we die, some causal conditions of our existence are released, but some causes of our existence continue to exist. So a human being will probably be born who is our continuation in some sense. Who is the realization of those continuing causes and conditions also of our origin. That is reincarnation. Or we will gradually manage to cancel the entire causal chain (I don't even know if we should) and we will return to the original substances mentioned at the beginning. To the Universal Consciousness, or the Infinite Potentiality of Chaos.
I believe that our existence is related to two substances (I am searching in vain for a better word, I am not a native speaker, sorry for inconvenience) - infinite potentiality and universal consciousness. Some people think that Infinite Potentiality (which, as I think after reading some of P. J. Carroll's books, some call Chaos) is an attribute of Universal Consciousness. But I think that infinite, unlimited potentiality allows also for the existence of the Universe without any consciousness.
However, almost every thinking being can notice that there is at least one consciousness - he or she himself. So if there is at least one consciousness, the concept of Universal Consciousness makes sense - even if it is only a mathematical construction - as a set union or a direct sum of individual consciousnesses. Even if Chaos were the primary substance, we obviously exist in a variant of the Universe equipped with Universal Consciousness - whatever it is. And this should be the subject of investigation (whatever activity we imagine under it) - what properties does Universal Consciousness have. Here, considerations inspired by topology come in handy - is this consciousness continuous, or on the contrary, composed of isolated components?
Now, many concepts and approaches from physics, mathematics and computer science are suitable as inspiration. I believe that all existing things (regardless of how we answer the question of what actually exists) are instances of this Universal Consciousness, limited by the causal conditions of their emergence. Similarly, as differential equations (e.g. Schrodinger's wave equation) can have their initial and boundary conditions. Chaos has no limiting conditions, Universal Consciousness has one that it is a consciousness. We have many more, for example, we are humans, women or men, we were born into a certain environment and time, we are a product of the evolution of life itself, ... and therefore we have an extremely long causal chain or rather many mutually quantum-entangled causal chains of events behind us.
When we die, some causal conditions of our existence are released, but some causes of our existence continue to exist. So a human being will probably be born who is our continuation in some sense. Who is the realization of those continuing causes and conditions also of our origin. That is reincarnation. Or we will gradually manage to cancel the entire causal chain (I don't even know if we should) and we will return to the original substances mentioned at the beginning. To the Universal Consciousness, or the Infinite Potentiality of Chaos.