Thank you for the fresh and in-depth insights Mr. Freinaght! These words instigated something in me.
I can't help but think about the introduction of the bible. "In the beginning was the word, and the word was god", if we are to reapproach spirituality in more down to earth and secular ways, then I think it is quite safe to affirm that god is an idea, concluding, nevertheless, that words are the true consciousness. Precisely because, when relevant enough, they tend to survive the proof of time that us, sentient and organic beings can't. No better argument could support this, than the simple fact that names like Jesus and Gandhi are still as fresh and young as their recent mention in your brand-new investigation. Wouldn't a truly graspable concept of eternity be exactly that?
With that said, and without necessarily disagreeing with your fresh concept of karma but maybe trying to auspiciously add to it... Recognizing oscillation as the true natural order of the world is the first inherent rule of the metamodern school, thus, rescuing these types of moral values after many years of a cold, industrial, scientific, productive, profitable, meaningless and nihilistic way of living might be the true mission of contemporary philosophy. Fairly because I tend to think that humanity was finally able to create something more powerful than man himself, a different kind of consciousness that we know for a fact, was calculated, built and manufactured by our own hands and minds.
The machine/ai/data consciousness may only respect the limits imposed by us and function as no more than our biological extension if us, sentient beings, are able to respect the limits imposed by the universe. That can only be done by recognizing that we can't truly measure and turn into math every single system that rules the universe. To dream of dragons and heroes might be perhaps the true core of our sentience, simply because if words are the true catalyst and container of our consciousness, then all we really represent are stories and stories ought to be either forgotten or eternally praised with and for glory.
On a counterpoint, if we are really able to measure every single atom, then this means that our humanity shall also be measured. The only problem is that computers are better at math. So it might be just a matter of time before mine or your words are turned into data, not in favor of the next curious human mind but precisely in favor of a much more universal consciousness that instantly communicates in complex algorithms rather than a poetic and beautifully humane subjective language.
No software or conscious organism really operates without the parameter of time though, so maybe, at the end of the day, our true job as philosophers is to count the grains of sand in the hourglass while we marvel about the immense beauty of their granularity. If we look long enough, then we may be able to grasp the opportunity of either adding an anomalous grain when no one is looking or forever taking one from the equation for ourselves! Always and foremost with the simple and existential goal of either speeding up the arrival of the future, or slowing it down so we can nostalgically flavor the past as the present is always and already, gone by.
