>Of course, you will find this out only if your conscience survives death... (which I do believe). And then, there are other theories (reincarnation), in which you would not preserve conscious memories of your present state.
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>Hilmar.

I think that some of the reincarnation 'understandings' state that we lose the memory of the prior life once we go back into physical life. And this is tightly bound with the idea that our karmic baggage dictates that we don't carry previous experience consciously into the new life because they'd act as a cheat sheets for passing the test that we're taking by living in the first place.

Or something like that.