Resurrection

=== Digital ghosts ===
In his 1988 book ''Mind Children'', [[roboticist]] [[Hans Moravec]] proposed that a future [[supercomputer]] might be able to resurrect long-dead minds from the information that still survived. For example, such can include information in the form of memories, filmstrips, social media interactions,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Galvão |first1=Vinicius Ferreira |last2=Maciel |first2=Cristiano |last3=Pereira |first3=Vinicius Carvalho |last4=Garcia |first4=Ana Cristina Bicharra |last5=Pereira |first5=Roberto |last6=Viterbo |first6=José |title=Proceedings of the XX Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems |chapter=Posthumous data at stake: An Overview of Digital Immortality Issues |date=18 October 2021 |pages=1–8 |doi=10.1145/3472301.3484358 |publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|isbn=9781450386173 |s2cid=238585039 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Galvão |first1=Vinícius Ferreira |last2=Maciel |first2=Cristiano |last3=Pereira |first3=Roberto |last4=Gasparini |first4=Isabela |last5=Viterbo |first5=José |last6=Bicharra Garcia |first6=Ana Cristina |title=Discussing human values in digital immortality: towards a value-oriented perspective |journal=Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society |date=26 November 2021 |volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=15 |doi=10.1186/s13173-021-00121-x |s2cid=244664252 |issn=1678-4804|doi-access=free }}</ref> modeled personality traits,<ref name="10.1007/s42438-018-0007-6"/> personal favourite things,<ref name="10.1007/s42438-018-0007-6">{{cite journal |last1=Savin-Baden |first1=Maggi |last2=Burden |first2=David |title=Digital Immortality and Virtual Humans |journal=Postdigital Science and Education |date=1 April 2019 |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=87–103 |doi=10.1007/s42438-018-0007-6 |s2cid=149797460 |language=en |issn=2524-4868|doi-access=free }}</ref> [[Personal information manager|personal notes and tasks]],{{additional citation needed|date=November 2022}} [[electronic health record|medical records]], and [[genome|genetic information]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/mindchildrenfutu00mora|url-access=registration|title=Mind Children|publisher=Harvard University Press|access-date=6 July 2015|isbn=9780674576186|last1=Moravec|first1=Hans|year=1988}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://futurisms.thenewatlantis.com/2010/02/resurrecting-dead.html|title=Resurrecting the Dead - Futurisms - The New Atlantis|work=Futurisms - The New Atlantis|date=6 February 2010 |access-date=6 July 2015}}</ref>

[[Ray Kurzweil]], American inventor and [[futurist]], believes that when his concept of [[Technological singularity|singularity]] comes to pass, it will be possible to resurrect the dead by digital recreation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.singularityweblog.com/ray-kurzweil-singularity/|title=Ray Kurzweil on the Singularity and Bringing Back the Dead|author=Socrates|date=18 July 2012|work=Singularity Weblog|access-date=6 July 2015}}</ref> Such is one approach in the concept of [[digital immortality]], which could be described as resurrecting deceased as "digital [[ghost]]s"<ref>{{cite web |title=Ghostbots, the Quest for Digital Immortality and the Law |url=https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2022/01/mauricio-figueroa-ghostbots-digital-immortality-law/ |website=www.jurist.org |date=18 January 2022 |access-date=2 November 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Steinhart |first1=Eric |title=Survival as a Digital Ghost |journal=Minds and Machines |date=1 October 2007 |volume=17 |issue=3 |pages=261–271 |doi=10.1007/s11023-007-9068-0 |s2cid=2741620 |language=en |issn=1572-8641|url=https://philarchive.org/rec/STESAA }}</ref> or "digital avatars".<ref>{{cite news |title=Digital immortality: How your life's data means a version of you could live forever |url=https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/10/18/139457/digital-version-after-death/ |access-date=2 November 2022 |work=MIT Technology Review |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=How your digital self could 'live' on after you die |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/business-40935790 |access-date=2 November 2022 |work=BBC News |date=21 August 2017}}</ref> In the context of [[knowledge management]], "virtual persona" could "aid in knowledge capture, retention, distribution, access and use" and continue to learn.<ref name="10.1007/s42438-018-0007-6"/> Issues include [[post-mortem privacy]],<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gamba |first1=Fiorenza |title=AI, mourning and digital immortality. Some ethical questions on digital remain and post-mortem privacy |journal=Études sur la mort |date=11 October 2022 |volume=157 |issue=1 |pages=13–25 |doi=10.3917/eslm.157.0013|s2cid=253060024 }}</ref> and potential use of personalised digital twins and associated systems by [[big data]] firms and advertisers.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Truby |first1=Jon |last2=Brown |first2=Rafael |title=Human digital thought clones: the Holy Grail of artificial intelligence for big data |journal=Information & Communications Technology Law |date=4 May 2021 |volume=30 |issue=2 |pages=140–168 |doi=10.1080/13600834.2020.1850174 |s2cid=229442428 |issn=1360-0834|doi-access=free |hdl=10576/17266 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>

Related alternative approaches of digital immortality include gradually "[[Artificial neuron|replacing]]" neurons in the brain with advanced medical technology (such as [[nanobiotechnology]]) as a form of [[mind uploading]] (see also: [[wetware computer]]).<ref>{{cite web |last1=Turchin |first1=Alexey |title=Multilevel Strategy for Immortality: Plan A ? Fighting Aging, Plan B ? Cryonics, Plan C ? Digital Immortality, Plan D ? Big World Immortality |url=https://philpapers.org/rec/TURMSF-2 |access-date=2 November 2022}}</ref>