(February 6, 2025 at 12:09 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: ps. My question is not about the historicity of the Resurrection but rather about the theory and science of it (hence why this is posted in philosophy not religion).
As I recall there are Silicone Valley types who think they'll soon be able to upload their consciousness into a computer, and live on that way after their body dies.
I'm skeptical about this, as it sounds a lot like the mind/body dualism that we're not supposed to believe in any more, but of course they know more about computers than I do.
(And if you've read Iain M. Banks' "Culture" novels you'll remember that the characters will upload themselves into computers before they go on dangerous missions, so that if they die the robots can grow them a new body and they can start again at the point where they uploaded before. Or they carry little recording devices that continually download their consciousness in case of accident. Naturally this is wild science fiction, but close enough to the Silicone Valley guys that we can imagine some far advanced technology to do this.)
So this is different from a full resurrection of the body which the Bible seems to describe. Although Paul says that the post-Resurrection body will be different, and Jesus's noli me tangere episode seems to indicate that he also may be in a new and improved physical structure.
Anyway, if the discussion is about the technological feasibility of living on after the death of the body, that's the kind of tech I would look to.
