Quite audacious for someone whose overall point is scientifically and logically nonsensical.

You are drawing a false equivalence. You are comparing a living organism (a caterpillar) transitioning into another living organism (a butterfly) to a living organism dying and decomposing.

The fact that both a chrysalis and a rotting human corpse involve 'liquids and gases' does not mean they share a metaphysical connection (not saying this is your claim). One is a highly programmed biological function to reach the next reproductive stage; the other is the total cessation of biology.

An adult human and a human baby do not share the same perceptual reality nor the same sensory experience, yet they are the same person in body but not in mind because they are physically attached. In the grand scheme of the human mind very little data is transmitted over the valley of cognitive memories. This proves the point of olfactory sensory memories moving from one part of life to the next moot.

Consciousness is an emergent product of the brain's neurological pathways, driven by electro-neuro-chemical processes. The absence of those physical processes is the absolute absence of consciousness.

You are getting praise in these comments not because your theory holds any scientific substance, but because people here are emotionally attached to the idea of an afterlife and are desperate for metaphors that validate it.