When Dreams Become Reality

Sometimes I seem to do my most creative thinking when I am only half awake. Perhaps that’s because there isn’t so much of me interfering then with the thought process! Trouble is that often, later in the day, I just know I had something brilliant, but can’t quite remember what it was. Maybe I am just being like the guy on an LSD high that thinks he has resolved the biggest question of the universe, or maybe I actually sometimes do have something worthwhile to offer.

Sometimes I can remember what occurred to me. Early this morning I mused about how, if our descendants could travel back in time, they could come back and meet every person who has ever lived and take tissue samples and perhaps even capture our thoughts --- the personhood of each of us. People who have developed technology of time travel probably have technology for replicating someone. And then I thought about the biblical promise of resurrection, and I wondered at the similarity between that and the notion of a new person being created from a past one with all the memories of the past one. People that could do such a thing could probably put that consciousness into an indestructible body also.

Then I thought about the notion of the human mind being linked to a computer, and how that would mean being able to get into the minds of others through a computer network. Ultimately all consciousness would merge into one. The singularity as Kurzweil calls it. I can see why that new collective person could be taken as God.

So there we have “God” doing the resurrecting in that fantasy.  I expect some reading this will think I’m onto something, while others will think I’m ON something.

I doubt that time travel will be man’s bailiwick, as I explained at http://gordonfeil.blogspot.ca/2016/12/where-are-time-travelers.html.

Another problem is that if I was replicated like that, I do not think the new one would be me, as I discussed at https://gordon-feil-practical-living.blogspot.ca/2016/12/does-world-need-more-of-you.html.  I don’t think that would be a real resurrection.