Maybe. I don't have any good reason to say 'yes, that sounds right,' or 'no, that couldn't be.'

But I don't like adding more complications to a theory than there has to be, and there's no reason to believe that any of us is really alive, is there?

[His eyebrows quirk, glancing up at her, and he adds:]

Insisting that 'gods are alive' could just be another comforting lie.