> ... only in our ability to perceive and act on them.

Personally, i think that our consciousness is all that matters, therefore i cannot agree with this.

> The human mind can conceive of that, that upon death time ceases to be a crawl and zips forward seamlessly and limitlessly until or unless something ... reconstitutes the parts, energy and pattern that makes each of us human.

What about the heat death of the universe and entropy? If that were to be the eventual outcome of the universe, there are no guarantees whatsoever about anything of the sort.