The Fundamental Mystery

I am a configuration of language, experience, and desire.

My life is a sequence of such configurations.

My experiences are represented as texts and stored in my memory.

My inner life consists largely of replaying and recombining these stored texts.

My outer life consists largely of taking in and reacting to new experiences.

My outer life seems to be dependent on my physical body.

It is not clear whether some of my inner life could be independent of my body.

It is not clear if I could interact with others without my body.

Life without a physical body could mean life as an energy pattern.

It is not clear how such an energy pattern would persist or interact with its environment.

But from my perspective as a configuration, I cannot rule it out.

My experience of a body is just another experience.

It could be that my life continues as an energy pattern after the death of my body.

Perhaps this energy pattern operates new bodies of different types from time to time.

Some people claim memories of such things, but they may be just recombining texts.