[ExI] Nikolai Fedorov and technological resurrection

[Adrian Tymes]

Resurrecting the preserved may be possible eventually, but how do you even
begin to resurrect those who are lost to entropy: buried and decayed to
bones, cremated, et al?  There's not enough information remaining, not even
for historical simulations (for the small minority we even have names for,
and anthropologists who have studied this issue can cite many cases of
modern scholars - equipped with the best understanding available at the
time - thinking they knew how ancient people lived only to find out they
were completely wrong about major aspects).

If there is no way to do a thing, it matters not if it ought to be done.
Pleas to the contrary are like all those military strategists who say we
ought to implement maneuver warfare in space so things for them can be just
like on Earth, utterly ignoring fuel and delta-v limits (and the cost and
logistical burden of constantly refueling satellites) that prevent it, as
well as dismissing what few solutions (such as solar or plasma sails) might
get around that problem.

On Mon, May 5, 2025, 3:55 AM Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Nikolai Fedorov and technological resurrection, revisited. God wants
> us to use science and technology to resurrect the dead.
> https://www.turingchurch.com/p/nikolai-fedorov-and-technological
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