A curious question which bears asking is what happens to the complex of qualia we call self after we die?
If qualia is another life form, not a carbon-based life form, but a different sort, then it’s to its advantage to keep this complex that we call the self alive in some form (or perhaps we should say “enduring”) even after the body stops.
And so the question is, does that qualiadelic ecosystem we call mind, just disintegrate? Does it endure in a material artifact like a book or recording after we are gone. Perhaps in a qualiadelic ecosystem it endures most strongly simply as a memory in another mind.
If this is the case then relationship is everything. And not merely with other human beings but all beings. Can you imagine enduring after death in an environment where all the beings hate you because of what you did back when you were in a material body?
But what if they love you, or respect you, because you were good.
We qualiadelically select ourselves by consciously choosing and following the ideas that we then inhabit – an awareness or an interest that opens our eyes every moment to more qualia, better qualia. What if, everything we create for ourselves along those lines in this life, what if we’re kind of reborn into it?
Maybe all that qualia, our consciously chosen stuff, will find its way back to us after we slip these mortal coils. Our life will have a purpose.