From a yokic view, do people choose to be born then, sort of yes. If we say that nothing in the universe can be created or destroyed, what happens to your consciousness? Right? So you have consciousness, which is not matter and is not energy. It's a subjective experience, which is like, a different quality of things. Does it correlate to matter? And does it correlate to energy? Absolutely. Just like energy of a wave propagating through an ocean correlates with something in matter. There is some connection there where the two of those things touch. Is the feeling, if i am afraid in a dream, how is that different from fear in real life? Right