However, resurrection is a completely different concept. The resurrection of a living being is neither reanimated nor revived. Rather, it means to have definitively died, decayed or decomposed, and then to reassemble and be reborn.
The Greek word “anastasis” is used for the concept of “resurrection,” and the writers of the New Testament are very careful to use this word (resurrection) when referring to the resurrection of Jesus. It is true that in the Gospel of John (11:25-26), before raising Lazarus, Jesus said that he was “anastasis”, a resurrection.
The New Testament writers were careful to describe the resurrection (and the resurrection of Lazarus) in such a way as to ensure that the reader understood that the man was indeed “as dead as a doornail” (as Dickens described Marry in A Christmas Carol). From the smell of Lazarus’ dead body, to the stabbed wound in Jesus’ ribs, to the careful removal of his shroud, even though they were only strips of cloth soaked in perfumed oil, this series of clear descriptions indicates that they could not have come back to Life.
Theologically, “anastasis” is very important for Christians because “resurrection” is part of the promise made by God in Christ that each person will receive a new body, not just to survive in some spiritual form or to regain It is not just to be born again, but to be rebuilt in a new creation. This was also a common belief among the Jews of the Time known as Pharisees; the Pharisees appear frequently in the Bible, and they often argued with Christ.
Resurrection is the only true immortality, for while restoration of vitality (revival) prolongs life, it cannot prevent the body from being destroyed someday. All medical breakthroughs have also been designed to prolong life or save the dead, but no drug has ever been able to actually revive any living thing. Of course, cloning (rebuilding molecules one after another from scratch) is out of reach.
Resurrection may be the “downloading” and “backing up” of an individual mind to a computer. With the mind intact, the body could be regenerated from the DNA, or a new artificial body could be provided directly. This approach assumes that it is feasible to download or back up a mind, and that this is actually a continuation of the individual’s life, not just a copy, or the destruction of one life and the beginning of another.
Another approach, perhaps more interesting, is the possibility of future invisible state transfer through quantum disruption. Recent experiments on the transmission of information through quantum disruption have shown that quantum bits can be completely disrupted and then reconstructed at some later time, thus effectively transmitting the original bits. This is a form of quantum invisible transfer, where the transfer of a particle to another particle state is accompanied by the destruction of the original state; and if the reconstruction occurs at some time after the destruction, as in the case of disruption, then this is also a form of resurrection.
But this view also brings up a philosophical paradox. If someone replicates me in every way, then this replica is not me, because I will continue to live as myself. On the other hand, if after I was destroyed, a replica identical to me was born, would I be this new person?
However, assuming that I just died, would I myself, including my thoughts, be confused and blend into my environment? All of my thoughts, memories, and self-awareness would potentially, along with the quantum bits that make up my individual self, spread out into the universe and become disrupted with the atoms that make up the earth and everything around it.
Essentially these atoms could store my information, just like a computer, but without any technology to speak of, because that’s just the way the universe works. According to quantum mechanics, information is never lost, and that includes the information that makes up a person.
Quantum displacements show that although information seems to disappear, it actually still exists, it just spreads out. This is analogous to when you speak, the information you say is transmitted through the chaos of air molecules; the ear or microphone can capture the sound, extract the information, and then the brain or computer can reconstruct the information from the sound.
Thus, a once coherent thought (and theoretically the body) can reappear at some future time by displacing the chaos as if it had been transmitted. And all it needs is the right conditions to reconstruct it, for which, considering that the universe should contain the right conditions to create you in the first place, it seems that one day there will be the right conditions to be able to reconstruct you.
But this reconstruction is not random, more precisely it is an invisible transmission of states from death to life, relying on the emerging phenomenon of quantum dislocation. That is, before you are born and after you die, you yourself and your information will always be present in the universe. You are like an echo, looking for the right listener to understand you.
So what are the objections to this idea?
First is the paradox mentioned earlier. If you die and your message is encoded in the universe and one day transported to some new place through quantum disruption, is it really you, or is it some replica that is exactly like you but not you?
In fact, it depends on the composition of the human mind. If this is some form of quantum entanglement of the brain, as Roger Penrose suggests, then this means that constructing an exact copy of you would require quantum invisibility to transport the entangled state of the brain.
However, the “unclonable theorem” proves that this is not possible. We cannot be sure that an exact copy can be created. This theorem was proven mathematically in 1982, and quantum mechanics does not allow the replication of quantum states, including humans. They can be transmitted, but they can never be copied.
Another objection questions whether displacements can actually occur. In the history of the universe, this has never happened. Although some people claim to have been reincarnated, there is not much strong evidence. Of course, this could also be because there is not enough time to decipher it. You are made up of a huge amount of information, and to decipher all of that information would require the right configuration of quantum matter to receive it from you.
And might the universe suffer some kind of thermal silence before that happens?
It is not known how the universe will end. It could be that a new universe arises from a black hole or some other phenomenon, or it could be that the universe will actually collapse on itself. We don’t know enough about the universe to say with certainty what will happen. What we do know is that there is no evidence yet that quantum information is not conserved over an infinite amount of time, during which anything can happen. Moreover, since resurrection is an invisible transmission of states by quanta rather than random chance, there is no reason to believe that this would take a significant amount of time, but rather just the right conditions.
Is this a whole person or just a partial reconstruction?
This is a more serious question than the others. For, although your conscious mind may be reconstructed, all your memories and knowledge may not be able to be dislocated and invisibly transmitted with you. This would mean that you were born without knowing where you came from and without knowing anything about the past. This form of reincarnation will be a continuation of life, but you have become another person. You would be living a new and different life.
Like Alzheimer’s disease, people lose their memories and even forget the people they love and themselves. Perhaps this information, while not lost to the universe because of quantum mechanics, may not coalesce again into the resurrected person as we expect either.
While resurrection seems likely to occur, it is not clear what form it will take. These parts that constitute our identity, relationships, memories, and sense of self are not actually us, but are as separate from us as any appendage. We think that they are us, but in fact they can be severed.
This in turn depends on what the receiver of the invisible transmission state is. A form of invisible transmutation that can interpret a complete person, including their memories, may be created by some advanced organism. But we may not want this, and do we really want to resurrect our present selves?
Displacement theory seems to offer a practical approach to resurrection that involves the decomposition, scattering and reconstruction of quantum information that could hypothetically constitute a person. While technology may not yet be able to achieve this, perhaps the universe itself can.
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