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Relatively recent advances allow for going back way more than 5000 years. Just last week Nova on PBS did an episode profiling one of the main contributors to pu
by tzs 3y ago
Relatively recent advances allow for going back way more than 5000 years. Just last week Nova on PBS did an episode profiling one of the main contributors to pushing the limit back. https://www.pbs.org/video/hunt-for-the-oldest-dna-zckys0/ https://www.pbs.org/video/hunt-for-the-oldest-dna-zckys0/
- elif 3y agoIt seems to me that this would validate the practice of sarcophagizing Egyptian pharaohs such that they can be reborn in the afterlife. As far as I understand it, we now have the technological capacity to do so, and simply lack the moral and legal capability. For me this would push occams razor toward the notion that endeavoring to build monumental generational-construction-project tombs was not an act of cultural vanity but actually an informed and practical decision made with some form of ancient knowledge.
- jhardy54 3y agoBeing able to read DNA != being able to clone humans.
- lazide 3y agoAlso, being able to clone humans != being able to restore a human (with all their memories, experiences, personality, etc.).
- pavel_lishin 3y agoEven if we could clone them, is it really a form of rebirth? They'd have no memory of their previous life - it's as much a form of rebirth as me freezing my sperm to be used after my death.