Could be, but also remember if mankind somehow finds a way to beat death, it will effect everyone, not just those destined for Hell.
from what Ive heard about this recently, they will be able to somehow ‘download’ a persons conscious self onto some kind of bio-mechanical database…I watched a documentary about scientists working on this very thing about a year ago…I couldnt believe how far along they actually were…they arent there yet but as the months go by, they learn more and more, and gain more ground…it was pretty scary, but eventually technology will reach this level and depending on when the second coming happens, we could go MUCH further than this too!!
This is the problem with popular science- you have no idea how much something gets stretch between the publication and the reporting or if what you are hearing on the “science channel” is just a bunch of loons with fake degrees as is frequently the case (I’m looking at you ancient aliens)
Edit: please don’t think I mean to be condescending, it may come of as such, this is more my anger for science journalism seeping through than anything. It is very difficult for lay people to determine what is BS because of how this stuff is written so I totally understand being misled. It happens to me in areas of research I am not directly involved in like physics and astronomy
Anyway, as someone previously stated the cells they are talking about are precursor cells produced through IPSC reprogramming, the kind of stem cell research that is favored by the church and it was used to produce progenitors that are no more sacred than producing skin cells or neural progenitors.
As far as this brain uploading stuff, its total rubbish from people in the transhuman/cryonics movement. These people are currently the laughing stock of science and are usually software engineers who want to live forever and have no knowledge of neuroscience. I am not sure what kind of documentary you were watching but I actually work in a neuroscience lab where we study memory storage in the hippocampus and use IPSCs as well.
We are just starting to understand how memory is formed on the level of a single synapse and we are not even there yet, it is a complex cascade of >50 different known proteins and likely a bunch of undiscovered ones. We are so far away from being able to understand the circuitry between a dozen nerve cells and replicate them in computer that in order to say we can upload consciousness soon you pretty much have to say “and then a miracle happens” which is what these people usually say. Furthermore even if we did understand how that worked it would be nigh impossible to scan a brain and convert that information over because there is no way in sight that we could identify all of those proteins in a living creature synapse by synapse. The best we can do is kill an animal and grind up a few thousand cells and identify 4 proteins at a time over a 3 day process called western blotting. Even beyond that if you could upload your consciousness it wouldn’t really be you, just a copy, if you don’t believe me take a photocopy of the dead sea scrolls and put them up for auction you will not get 10 dollars even though they look the same as the originals.
And I know there are those that would say “well with time technology will advance.” Its not like going to the moon where there was a clear line of thinking- we have rockets that can go up a few hundred feet, we could make a big one and it would get to the moon. No, we have absolutely no ideas or basis to complete such a task.
There are amazing (and many terrible) things that I could see as being very possible in the very near future- things like replacing the genetic material in a mans sperm with that in a woman egg and adding a Y chromosome to make a woman a father. Switching an Y chromosome out for a X in a single cell from a man and then cloning from it to produce a female version of him. Making drugs that inhibit PKC isoforms and completely block memory consolidation for a few hours so we could stop someone from developing PTSD. These things are very very possible and will likely be completed in animals in a few years because they have a basis in current research, brain uploading does not.
It’s unsettling to think that there might be nothing God can make that we can’t make also.
), there have been interpretations that say that there will be a last battle at the end of time where the dead will be raised and the final spiritual war will take place.
