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Resurrection
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From a philosophical standpoint, resurrection presents deep challenges regarding personal identity. If a body dies and is later reconstituted, or if a new body is formed using the same underlying informational pattern, the question arises whether the same person has returned. Philosophers often grapple with whether identity resides in the physical substrate, the functional organization, or the continuity of memory and consciousness identity_theory.
Scientifically, the concept of resurrection, as popularly imagined (i.e., reversing the systemic breakdown followin…