(October 12, 2015 at 1:34 pm)Aoi Magi Wrote: Right now it's impossible, in future however, something similar might be possible. Our brain is pretty much a biological harddisk where all our data resides, and experiments are already on their way on how to read and retrieve that data. So I don't think it's too implausible to imagine a future where we can keep ourselves backed-up on physical mediums and restore that to a new body when needed. So resurrection could be possible in a way.
Two things. First, I don't see any reason to believe that one is simply one's data, or that one is a biological hard disk. It seems to me that one is the machine. You are not just the particular thoughts you have; you are also the way you think about those thoughts.
Second, even if I were wrong about the first point, the data extraction is going to be practically impossible, which Vorlon13 explains well enough in an earlier post.
So I am confident that it will never be possible.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
