The Resurrection

[John 6IX Breezy]

I see now why you're interested in bodily resurrection too.

Now that you mention this, I don't actually know what other churches believe about the resurrection, particularly the Catholic Church. I only know the stereotype of grandma going up to heaven after she dies. Whereas in my church, grandma is just dead, she's not in heaven or hell, until the resurrection at the end of days.

Tell me what you think about this: Over the past few years I've grown more interested in the idea of informational realism, that the structure of reality is fundamentally informational. Now, I don't know what that means in philosophical terms, but in practical sense it's as if information is at the foundation of the universe, more fundamental than matter and energy, etc.

And so, could that mean that we exist informationally as well? That just as there is a genetic blueprint, there's an informational blueprint? Of course, under this view you'd certainly be able to upload yourself to a computer as information, whether or not the absence of body ultimately changes who you are. It also solves the problem of resurrection from a continuation perspective.

But does information sneak the soul back in under another name? The information itself wouldn't be conscious so perhaps that's the difference, but it is still very soul-like. From the surface it sounds similar to what you explained about Dante's view, especially since it also contains info about the form of the body not just mind.