I've always liked the idea that it's something like a state vector in a vector space with a "good" subspace and a "bad" subspace. There's a projection onto the

I've always liked the idea that it's something like a state vector in a vector space with a "good" subspace and a "bad" subspace. There's a projection onto the good subspace to yield a (lower-dimensional) vector without the bad components, which is then perhaps embedded in another higher-dimensional state space associated with the afterlife. A fun toy model if nothing else. Clearly I spend too much time thinking about vector spaces.