How This Australian Company Hopes To Resurrect People From The Dead

Interesting. We should have learned from all the times in the past, that summarily dismissing the possibility of things that are not possible right now is not infrequently shown to be short-sighted.

One key aspect of this conversation, I think, is a conundrum. On one hand, secular scientists want to believe that consciousness, sentience, self-awareness, personality, identity, are all products of wholly naturalistic processes and origins; but, then, if so, the idea of finally capturing the physiological material that contains "the self" could be accessible, and thus, portable, no less than any other "body part."

On the other hand, people tend to be incredulous of these ideas, in part because there is a nagging hesitation to understand "the self" as nothing more than biological process/origins. We are hesitant to believe the self is accessible by science because we believe the self is more than physiological and, thus, beyond the capability of physical manipulation, such as might be required to, say, convert thoughts into containable/transportable bits and bytes in order to transplant not only historical memories but current "living" (??!!) thoughts from a brain onto a computer memory device like a solid state drive or holographic device.

As I wrote this, I realized another problem - moving a memory onto a memory device is one problem...but a memory device itself does not "think"...to support current living thought requires that the storage device is integrated into a processing system that supports the dynamic process that we call "thinking".

Most leading A.I. people will say, quite candidly, that we are quite far from truly understanding how we think; as such, this company rightly can only do so much to preserve a brain - and assume/hope that the self-identity/personality/memories are preserved within that physical lump of nerves without decay - until we might have sufficient technology to emulate thinking with storage to which the brain's data and personality can be either plugged into or transferred into.

Back to you.

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Trying real hard to be the shepherd.