If the existence of an enduring soul was proven...

[Angrboda]

A perennial problem with visions of an afterlife is that reflection upon them reveals that they aren't ultimately an improvement on the present, or if they are, they are incoherent or otherwise impossible. Many suggest that heaven would inevitably consist in ultimate boredom. If heaven were perpetual bliss, without an setbacks or obstacles to overcome, it would seem to succumb to a tendency to view it as pointless, which it very well could be. If heaven were simply a continual pumping of endorphins into my brain like some good version of crack cocaine, besides the loss of meaning and pointlessness, any actual biological brain would adapt to this as brains do now to powerful drugs, and would eventually reach a point at which they no longer had the ability to respond positively to the stimulus. We currently have a pretty good solution. We live on a hedonistic treadmill which more or less guarantees that we are always happier than we have a right to be, and yet freedom and the experience of failure and struggle provide meaning. It would seem the only way we could improve this in order to realize heaven would be to ensoul things that are fundamentally different than humans now. Trying to imagine what that would be like seems rather difficult if not outright impossible. The only thing we can build on is the present, by taking pieces of what we are now and placing them in a different context. That results in quite a challenge, basically asking what would be beter than being human. A question I don't have an answer to.