If the future is good, it will be a technical problem whether we can resurrect the dead (especially, against the second law of thermodynamics). If the future is bad, it doesn’t matter what we want.
I am not sure what is there to discuss, other than how to preserve the people who are still alive (cryonics) and how to increase the probability that the future is good, which is what this website is mostly about.
We might agree the second law of thermodynamics does not make resurrection insurmountable, there is much is physics we don’t know yet, reconstructing a person might not involve collecting their parts.
Also agreed, if the future is bad it doesn’t matter what we want, but we have the power to effect the future today and in the near future, and to me it seems like embracing this framework might have a positive effect.
Avatarism can offer a goal to those of us who lost our direction when we lost religion, I sense in secular society a lack of “North Star” to aspire to, Avatarism offers this in a net good even if it would ultimately be unsuccessful.
If the future is good, it will be a technical problem whether we can resurrect the dead (especially, against the second law of thermodynamics). If the future is bad, it doesn’t matter what we want.
I am not sure what is there to discuss, other than how to preserve the people who are still alive (cryonics) and how to increase the probability that the future is good, which is what this website is mostly about.
We might agree the second law of thermodynamics does not make resurrection insurmountable, there is much is physics we don’t know yet, reconstructing a person might not involve collecting their parts.
Also agreed, if the future is bad it doesn’t matter what we want, but we have the power to effect the future today and in the near future, and to me it seems like embracing this framework might have a positive effect.
Avatarism can offer a goal to those of us who lost our direction when we lost religion, I sense in secular society a lack of “North Star” to aspire to, Avatarism offers this in a net good even if it would ultimately be unsuccessful.