Programmed Will Entities, Primal Void
"Wait," she stopped him.
He looked at her, perplexed.
"Once you begin the process, you'll lose your present sense of self. It would be drowned and lost in the multitide of selves you've developed in your previous reincarnation cycles."
"I don't understand exactly."
"Let me put it like this. Others people are also in the reincarnation cycle, the starting point being towards the end of the Ancient Era. Naturally, they're real, but not strictly 'alive.' Look at the present Ancient Era the universe has reset to. Every person you're seeing there is more of a program than a real person. After they die, the next set of programmed beings will arise, then more generations of programmed beings will surface till Heavenly Will resets to the starting point again.