[ExI] Nikolai Fedorov and technological resurrection

[Giulio Prisco]

On 2025. May 6., Tue at 12:56, BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 6 May 2025 at 08:11, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> > This does not appear to be such a case.  We know what would be needed
> for true resurrection, and know that - barring time travel - it is gone in
> such cases.
> >
> > There exist possibilities that we can envision that we know are not
> possible, at least in the formulation envisioned.  For example,
> accelerating in the normal fashion from slower than light speed to faster
> than light speed in this universe (thus all the proposed shortcuts that are
> not impossible).
> > _______________________________________________
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> Your scientific criticisms could be applied to almost every
> philosopher that ever lived.  :)
> Philosophers tend to not be much bothered about the "How" of
> implementing their utopian ideas.
>
> Fedorov (1829-1903) is regarded as an early transhumanist philosopher.
> But even supporters of Fedorov admit that his thoughts about
> resurrecting all the dead are probably impossible fantasy.
> See: <https://iep.utm.edu/fedorov/


Time will tell! A very long time I guess.

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