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I once read (or tried to read) a rather interesting book by a physicist who had somewhat gone off the rails, but in the book he had an interesting explanation for how the afterlife could exist: rationally.
Suppose human life goes on for thousands or millions of years and the race gets pretty damn powerful. At that point, they might be able to build a computer or facility that could run a complete simulation of life on earth from year zip on forward. Everything would unfold exactly as it had. But when people "died," the program would graduate their souls into a sort of "afterlife" program where they would receive additional instruction and eventually be incorporated into the future world as living (and presumably immortal ) beings. Thus making an afterlife for everyone who ever lived.
But if you believe this, one question is paramount: are we now living the real thing? Or the simulation?
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