mm: The simple answer is life. Want to know more?
Q: Go on.
mm: Have you ever seen a top without a bottom? Have you ever seen a left without a right? See, when you break a magnet, you don't get a south end and a north end; you get two pieces of magnets, each having a south and a north.
long pause....
mm: You know consciousness in contrast of unconsciousness (sleeping). Now, there it is, you know you are alive because you once were dead. After death, well, it comes life. Such is the cirle of life (and death).