NPPF Commentary Line 230, P. 164

[Vincent A. Maeder]

Looking back at my original argument, I stated that we would dismiss any
pre-life musings of life.  Since we are alive, it therefore follows such
musings would not be nonsense.  Therefore, don't dismiss musings of an
afterlife.  As I had stated:

"[I]f, before we came to life, we tried to imagine life we would have
dismissed such musings as mere nonsense. Now in the eighth stanza, he
completes the thought by arguing that it is just as naïve for us to argue
there is no hereafter especially when all we can conjure up in our
imagination for life in the hereafter is 'a domestic ghost.'"

I think we are talking about the same thing, just depends which part of the
elephant we blind people are looking at.  V.