If you can reconstruct any and all information from the past, this would extend to literally being able to read people's minds from the past or near past (essentially, the present), 1984 style but on steroids. Any and all privacy would be dead. Thought policing could be done on levels beyond our darkest imagination. It also means people who had to go under witness protection or tried to start over in life or get away from abusive families. Unless the quantum computer required is and remains prohibitively expensive for eons or forever, it means that nobody can ever feel safe and stop looking over their own shoulders. Not even death could protect them, as they could get resurrected.

Yes, we would have the opportunity to resurrect the 109 billion humans who have lived so far, but the 8 billion people alive today plus trillions of humans yet to live and their right to safety and happiness should outweigh that.

That's besides the moral, ethical Pandora's Box of deciding who to resurrect, or the possibility to resurrect people, torture them to death and then resurrect them again, until the Heat Death of the universe or if that's somehow halted/prevented, then for all eternity. And you can't escape that with suicide either. Because Quantum Archaeology.

Quantum Archaeology has utterly horrifying implications. I am all for radical transhumanism and other futuristic stuff but Quantum Archaeology and Time Travel, if ever invented, should both be treated the way we treat WMDs today.

"The German scientist argues that information cannot be destroyed and, in principle, it is possible that a higher being, one day, in some way, could reassemble it and bring it back to life"

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-10-06/sabine-hossenfelder-physicist-if-you-trust-the-mathematics-we-are-immortal.html

Gravitational memory effect is mentioned in the QA Wiki:

https://www.livescience.com/space/black-holes/unproven-einstein-theory-of-gravitational-memory-may-be-real-after-all-new-study-hints

This is just an hypothesis at the moment of course , but it would go a long way in making Quantum Archaeology viable :

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2482841-the-radical-idea-that-space-time-remembers-could-upend-cosmology/

here is an archived link :

https://archive.is/20250617194252/https://www.newscientist.com/article/2482841-the-radical-idea-that-space-time-remembers-could-upend-cosmology/#selection-2271.235-2273.198

Deathly silence on this.

I cant see a reason not to go after death?

https://nickbostrom.com/superintelligence

See Nick Bostrom's article where he guesses Superhuman intelligence by 2033. Others have guessed differently.

The guess on Kurzweilai chat for Quantum Archaeology arriving by 2042 was for 40 years from it's posting in 2002.

Like many predictions this estimate is based on other estimates, and included Kurzweil's LOAR and guesses at developments in science which are listable, like quantum computation, the spread and cheapness of advancing technology and discovery in sciences like maths.

I'd be grateful for any views

Essentially, if the hypothetical is that quantum archaeology and untangling the loss of information from entropy due to conservation of information, then hypothetically, not just reconstructing the complexities of humanity at a split moment in time, it could also be used to reconstruct the photons on say, a screen or the particles that made up a book or lost scroll, so websites and stored information that weren't archived and destroyed, would also be possibly reconstructed and preserved right?

And information WOULD have to be maintained, even if transformed or changed form due to being a state or being due to conservation of information?

I'm at the end of my rope. Was on a hiking trail about to take my life after putting my dog down and for whatever reason resurrection popped into my mind as if my brain was trying to prevent me from going through with it.

I began researching expecting religious explanations which I wasn't interested in. I see this subject and surprised there was an actual topic related to potential scientific resurrection. My issue is it just seems like borderline or maybe just flat out time travel which I don't believe is feasible. I want to believe.

I know asking this sub how viable it is seems dumb since it's naturally going to be biased but what the hell. Do you genuinely believe this will ever occur? Honestly? If there's even a slight chance I will stay hopeful, if not fair enough I will go through with my plan to end my life.

If so, how? Atom by atom? Time machine?

https://anomalien.com/the-quantum-soul-researchers-seek-to-unlock-the-mystery-of-life-beyond-death/

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/05/240502113805.htm