The Resurrection

[Mister Agenda]

It may appear to be absurdly detailed work, but the brain already has the ability to do it. If you sever the optic nerve of a frog, it'll find a way to reconnect all those millions of fine axons and restore vision.

Moreover, you've heard how your body replaces most of your cells every seven years. In other words, you're a living ship of theseus. So I'm not entirely sure hyperfocusing on restoring every single original cell is even necessary, maybe the answer is simply to replace them wholesale with spare cells. When you've lost blood we don't mop up every blood cell and put it back in, we just give you a new batch.

As a digression, what then are your thoughts on abiogenesis? Is it somehow easier for life to emerge by itself from scratch from the environment than it is for it to re-emerge in a cell with all the necessary components already there?

The brain doesn't have the ability to do it when its dead. Absent reversing time, you might be able to restore a dead brain with advanced nanotechnology, but would it truly be the same frog or just a very good copy?

I'm not very skeptical of the existence of an itinerant rabbi named Yeshua who ran afoul of Roman politics (my personal estimate is slightly over 50% that this person isn't entirely fictional or mere a composite of several characters) whose sayings were part of a new branch of Judaism and who had a reputation of being one of the wonder workers widely believed in at the time. It's far more likely that if his followers had real reason to think he was resurrected because he was seen walking around and talking after his reported death, it's because he wasn't really dead in the first place. He was supposedly taken down much sooner than normal for a crucifixion, perhaps he was in a deep coma instead of dead or even drugged into deep unconsciousness as part of a plot to rescue him. Unlikely, but not as unlikely as him actually being dead for three days and coming back to life.