Sweet, no, thank you, you got it. I’ve also read that given enough time, these vacuum states can produce something called quantum tunneling which could potentially give birth to new universes once our own universe becomes so old that even the last surviving black holes evaporate and time basically stops because nothing will be changing anymore. How this relates to consciousness or unconsciousness I can’t really say, except that as the universe dies it could also give birth to new life, which has a nice dialectical sound to it.