I like that idea, that we have no real idea what determines your standings the next time around. I always just figured it was a form of communism (but not in the financial sense, which does not exist in this context) where the goal is to collect all the experiences to “complete” a soul, which then moves onto something else entirely (godhood, perhaps, of another universe or galaxy?). Or maybe if the concept of godhood is hard for one to grasp, the concept of humanity. Maybe we’re not the first step. Maybe you have to go through the lives of various animals and other life. Like you have to have been a good dog a few times. And maybe some plants are even above us, like being a tree. So you would have had to have all these experiences to advance to the next species, or category of species. I dunno.

I do like the idea of it being something random and unexpected though. Seems a bit Douglas Adams — and I’m totally here for that.