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Schlega comments on Could/would an FAI recreate people who are information-theoretically dead by modern standards? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Schlega 22 January 2011 09:25:00PM 8 points [-]

This scenario is much farther along the impossible scale than reviving an intact brain. If I wanted to live forever, I would make absolutely sure that I had a plan that did not involve violating the laws of physics.

(Not that I'm an expert physicist, but my understanding is that decomposition is an irreversible process.)