[TrentCrimmIndependent]

If you believe that consciousness can only exist within the confines of the 3D plane and what can be quantified based on the detection of our very limited senses and limited breadth of scientific study/knowledge, then no.

If you believe that our distinct cognitive ability to perceive and monitor our own thoughts, have "gut" instincts based on very little, and feel the range of emotions that we can, the processes of which can't be full explained or measured by scientific means might be indicative of humans possessing a "soul", or an essence that goes beyond our physiological structures, then yes.. there might be.

I think to write it off entirely with how little we understand yet about our universe is foolish, but maybe that sense of finality provides people with a sense of comfort about their reality.

I think we exist on a plane that is beyond the 5 senses and that's where a lot of unexplainable intuitive abilities of ours originate.

Just because we can't measure it with the tools of this physical plane doesn't mean it isn't there.

I think we can cease to exist here (and become one with the earth), and yet persist elsewhere.

Everything that comprises a human is just too miraculous to have emerged from the such a short process of evolution. It's a mere fraction of the blink of an eye in the geologic timeline.