I can imagine a number of ways there might be an afterlife. Perhaps sentience is a property of existence we haven't identified and it behaves like a normal electromagnetic wave, propagating itself, and when it finds a good live unoccupied brain (in the fetus one supposes) it goes in and parasitizes it (actually the relationship is probably more symbiotic), and then goes elsewhere when that brain dies. More likely when the brain dies it also dies, as otherwise we have to find a way for it to leave the sinking ship and find another baby.
I do agree with those who say sentience is unexplained, and it seems unexplainable. As with a lot of things, this does not give me the right to insert the supernatural. It could, as I just said, be nothing more than an undiscovered aspect of nature. The brain has chemicals that can be associated with certain emotions and subjective experiences, but they are not those emotions and experiences but just an association, and this explains little. Still, mind can go while brain remains, but when this happens it seems to be associated with brain malfunction -- to me a pretty big clue that sentience depends on brain.
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