> not much more true than it is that you could in principle reconstruct a burned letter from the ashes, with enough information about the burning process. Reco

> not much more true than it is that you could in principle reconstruct a burned letter from the ashes, with enough information about the burning process. Recovering text from charred fragments of paper is sometimes possible, but anything reduced to ash is lost forever. The information required to reconstruct it ends up dispersed across the whole state of the Earth, and from there leaks out into space at the speed of light: it can never be recovered, even in principle. The same is true vis a vis corpsicles and corpses. Whether cryopreservation preserves enough structure to make resurrection possible is an open question, but once your synapses are gone they're gone for good.