Human Instrumentality begins, sucking everyone up into oneness, but right afterwards Shinji says “no, this isn’t right”, and Lilith instead sets people’s souls to be, I guess, free-floating. The choice that you mentioned is during this part, and it’s whether everyone’s souls can return to human bodies. So it’s kind of like two different half-states because Shinji was indecisive. The way I interpreted the ending was that Shinji and Asuka were the first humans to return to their bodies because they sorted out their feelings and chose life (Asuka having done so in the first half of the movie, when she pilots Unit-02 again).
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Human Instrumentality begins, sucking everyone up into oneness, but right afterwards Shinji says “no, this isn’t right”, and Lilith instead sets people’s souls to be, I guess, free-floating. The choice that you mentioned is during this part, and it’s whether everyone’s souls can return to human bodies. So it’s kind of like two different half-states because Shinji was indecisive. The way I interpreted the ending was that Shinji and Asuka were the first humans to return to their bodies because they sorted out their feelings and chose life (Asuka having done so in the first half of the movie, when she pilots Unit-02 again).