The Resurrection

[John 6IX Breezy]

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.

Yes; this concept of transformation has always fascinated me. During my last days of grad school, the idea of embodied cognition had taken a hold of the psychological world. In summary, the mind is dependent on and influenced by body. For example, we explored its implications for AI, a disembodied agent, and whether embodying it in robotics was necessary to advance it, etc.

Now, the Christian God is very concerned with sanctification—with actually, almost surgically, removing sin out of a person. For Christians that believe in souls, like Catholics, something like purgatory is where the soul is purified. However, for churches that do not, like mine, where the mind and body are not separable, this requires bodily transformation. It is as though repairing the body is a pre-condition to healing the mind. Take memories for example, if you've suffered from traumas those experiences are physically and visibly forged into your brain. The experience itself is threaded across neurons. And so, a God that wanted to psychologically heal you would need to physically transform you. And what embodied cognition suggests is not just transform your brain but the entire body.