See, it's not quite that.
Everything, every soul, every atom, is ultimately just a cog in the machine that is the whole. The whole is a static singularity when viewed as a whole, but an infinite multitude of singularities when viewed subjectively (Eg., from the perspective of, say, a human being).
When you die you are returned to the whole. Your experiences and learning from your life are contributed to the entirety of existence. Meaningless as they become, they are still a part of it, and integral as any other.
You then return again to subjectivity.
There is no time, space, entropy or even any change when the whole is viewed as a whole. Eg., objectively. It is a static singularity. It is everything at once. "past, present, future." All of it at once.
These lives are experience. The whole has no experience. is nothing but perfect balance.
The parts, however, can experience the whole subjectively. They can actually see the whole from a point of view that seems to change, progress and approach a balance. Relativity. Incompleteness which allows for the illusion of change.
Consciousness is simply the other side of the coin from entirety. It is infinite in its variations because the only way a truly static singularity can be is for it to be EVERY possible variation of EVERY possible thing at once.
The beauty of it is that one can experience it without understanding it.