setting such algorithms to munch over a person's highly documented life might be enough to enable a more or less plausible simulation of them after death.
You might be able to reconstruct the person's public face, but will have major problems with his private life.
By "highly documented" I had in mind not just the ordinary documentation that prominent public figures get, but someone who has deliberately taken steps to exhaustively record as much as they can, public and private.
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