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> If in the far far future we develop a means of resurrecting the dead, the epitaphs on tombstones may be used to determine who deserves resurrection. But of co
by science4sail 5y ago
> If in the far far future we develop a means of resurrecting the dead, the epitaphs on tombstones may be used to determine who deserves resurrection. But of course this is extremely fanciful speculation.
That's unlikely unless the dead person is exceptionally well-preserved (or you're just creating Generic Human Body #42 and giving it the dead person's name). Brain structure doesn't really survive current burial/embalming techniques and I imagine that any sort of "immortal soul" may have long left by then. Cryonics aims for this sort of far-future resurrection, but even it has problems about viability.
- CryptoPunk 5y agoI was thinking more along the lines of technology that can scan back through time, and record a person's neural patterns at the point of death. This would require being able to open at least observation-only portals through time, or that there exist some high-fidelity natural recordings of events on Earth encoded in some substrate in the universe, that last millions of years, and that are high-resolution enough to enable full copying of the past state of a human brain, that one day humanity could recover. How such a feat could be accomplished, I don't know, but capabilities that seem impossible today may become possible with millions of years of technological progress, especially if the exponential phase of technological progress continues for a while longer.