QUANTUM ARCHEOLOGY PART 1...

Will it be possible one day to resurrect every person that's ever lived?  Some scientists think so.  Is it an attempt to replace God's promised resurrection of all men?  Some also think so.
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Understanding and Defining Quantum Archeology?

(clockwise) Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Ray Kurzweil

In a short and concise explanation, the goal of Quantum Archeology is to "...resurrect all the deceased persons that exist in the world."  By this is meant, all the people that have ever lived in the world. It is to be done in three steps (with the one listed above being the third and final step.  When the average person hears this, their first reaction is to laugh at the silliness of the idea.  But before the laughter goes on for too long, it should be noted that some of the most brilliant scientific and engineering minds, especially among young and upcoming leaders are seriously committed to trying to accomplish this feat.

Leonard Susskind Physicist

Suffice it to say, that the leader of Google research, Ray Kurzweil, the director of Engineering at Google, believes such a thing is possible.  Also, the founders of Google, Sergey Brin and Larry Page are also pushing for this concept.


Three steps are envisioned.  The last step is mentioned at the beginning of the article.

Step 1 is "...to collect and conserve in a laboratory the DNA of more than 100 billion (deceased) persons."  

Step 2 is to "...technologically resurrect the first human."

This all is according to the Mankind Resurrection Project.  Interestingly enough, the last post on their blog was in 2015.  Who runs this site is unknown.  This site estimates that the final step will take anywhere from 10,000-50,000 years to achieve.

Another site, estimates a much shorter span of time for the undertaking - 40 years.  All these sites quote Susskind, the physicist in his statement that "...information is incapable of being destroyed."  Where he made this statement is not mentioned.  The idea that information is eternal is not new.  It was formulated by, among others, the ancient Greeks.  Plato spoke of eternal realities that existed upon which all the things on earth where mere duplications, having no meaning apart from that eternal idea of the object.  This extended to concepts such as two things being equal in size, etc.  In one of his dialogs, Meno 85-86, Socrates asks an uneducated boy questions about object's sizes and geometrical shapes that the boy was never taught.  How did he know them?

...has someone taught him geometry? You see, he can do the same as this with all geometry and every branch of knowledge. Now, can anyone have taught him all this? You ought surely to know, especially as he was born and bred in your house.

Meno
Well, I know that no one has ever taught him.

Socrates, Plato's teacher

Socrates
And has he these opinions, or has he not? 

Meno
He must have them, Socrates, evidently. 

Socrates
And if he did not acquire them in this present life, is it not obvious at once
that he had them and learnt them during some other time? 

Meno
Apparently. 

Socrates
And this must have been the time when he was not a human being? 

Meno
Yes. 

Socrates
So if in both of these periods—when he was and was not a human being—he has had true opinions in him which have only to be awakened by questioning to become knowledge, his soul must have had this cognizance throughout all time? For clearly he has always either been or not been a human being. 

Meno
Evidently. 

Socrates
And if the truth of all things that are is always in our soul, then the soul must be immortal; so that you should take heart and, whatever you do not happen to know at present—that is, what you do not remember—you must endeavor to search out and recollect? 

Meno
What you say commends itself to me, Socrates, I know not how. 

Socrates
And so it does to me, Meno. Most of the points I have made in support of my argument are not such as I can confidently assert; but that the belief in the duty of inquiring after what we do not know will make us better and braver and less helpless than the notion that there is not even a possibility of discovering what we do not know...

Indestructible information was also visualized by the Christians in the Bible wherein Revelation 20:12 states:

And I saw the dead, great and small, standing . before the throne, and books were opened.  Another book was opened, which is the book of life.  The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books.

To admit these things is NOT to say that DNA is eternal as many imagine. Indeed, DNA is very delicate and can easily be changed or destroyed.   Some believers in Quantum Archeology, cite papers like those in which researchers have been able to revive proteins that have been extinct for millions of years.  But the truth is as Mary Schueler, Ph.D. states:

DNA is easily destroyed if it is not in the right environment. DNA is a negatively charged molecule and will degrade fairly readily. It usually exists coated with proteins that protect it, package it and read it. DNA degradation is one of the primary reasons that it is hard to get DNA from fossils. Recent advances in technology have allowed for sequencing of DNA from a Neanderthal fossil.

Thornton, the subject of the article cited by Quantum Archeologists, explains how precarious the whole reviving of ancient DNA is:

Thornton tried to run that evolutionary sequence backwards. But when the researchers reversed the seven mutations in the ancient cortisol-specific form, they could not transform it back into a protein that worked like the common ancestor of the GR and MR. They instead engineered a dud, unable to respond to any hormone. That was because a handful of other mutations had also cropped up on the way to making a cortisol-specific receptor. They played little part in the receptor's new function, but acted as an evolutionary ratchet, preventing it from regaining its old one. 

Thornton showed that it was necessary to undo those mutations too, to reverse the change. To him, the work was a powerful demonstration that the path of evolution can be contingent on random events. “Chance plays a very large role in determining what evolutionary outcomes are possible,” he says. The study captivated the scientific press — and beyond. “Evolution opens gateways into the future. But it appears to close them — firmly — behind it as well,” read an editorial in the New York Times.

So emergent random mutations can make things impossible to reverse.  This emergence is the fundamental weak point to any deterministic theory or computer models that might be devised by modern science.  Models can only deal in approximations and rough guesses, especially as they deal with things further in the future.  Precision, for now at least, is beyond their grasp.

CREATING A QUANTUM ARCHEOLOGY GRID...

This is defined as a "...multidimensional plotting all known and deduced facts with wave mass density intersections and their relational connecting lines (aka the laws of science).  This grid "...must pull data from the archeological record and add the other data banks like the biological record and the cosmological record being built by NASA.

If this sounds complex and beyond the abilities of our most sophisticated computers and computer models, it is.  Historical records are still considered incomplete and at times, contradictory and erroneous, written for political purposes not historical ones.  But the unnamed author continues:

The quantum archaeology grid is therefore a map of space-time coordinates positioning known events from macro and meso to micro levels, enabling a reading of the complete details of people and their memories, past, present and to some extent future.

Perhaps the key term is "known events".  As chaos theory and emergence has taught, it is those unknown events that can radically alter conclusions about events, the future and mathematical models.  As to how precise this grid will have to be is further explained:

The relational lines between events are dictated by the laws of science, have knowable shapes and their progressions knowable courses and histories. 

Timelines proceed, point to point, and depending on what is at that point, move on predictable and retrodictable paths. When they cross other lines, events are formed by energy densities. These lines can be plotted as wave or particle motions, but the easiest way is to assume everything is waves. 

A person can be calculated as the intersections of event or time lines, which are geographically inevitable plots retrodicted from known sets in the present by geometry physics. Every tiny event is connected causally to every other event by immutable geometries. It is improbable information can be lost, as there are many pathways to each event. Human events are concentrations of energies and will show clearly on a quantum archaeology grid.

BOOK OF RESURRECTION TABLES

What is such a book? According to the author of this paper it is the:

...epigenetic genome, and all people carry their unique copies which change through their lives and can be passed on. Looking like tree rings everyone carries an epigenetic profile wrapped round their DNA which is a history map of their environment. In it is a record of a person's environment. Understand this, and we understand important parts of the environment. This can be plotted into the quantum archaeology grid to give ever more useful data for calculations.

What this all means is difficult to understand.  The field of epigenetics is still in its infancy.  Although it is true that environmental factors can affect our DNA and the DNA of our descendants, it is still far from a

precise science as stated by Elizabeth Blackburn:

Such regulation processes may well have arisen precisely because they modify the rigid concept of inheritance of the same genes to a sensible, where necessary, inter-generational adaptation to varyingly difficult environmental conditions. However, before we can think about drugs for tackling chronic stress, for example, the underlying processes of inherited stress regulation must be further investigated. In this respect, therapeutic agents are the long-term goal here and not the next step.

It is still not clear just what this "book of resurrection tables" would be, how it would operate or look like.

HYPERCOMPUTATION

Although several forms of hypercomputation are theorized, the most common one is the so-called "Oracle machine", a type of "hypercomputer."  This author and other believers in Quantum Archeology, assume the feasibility of the devising of an oracle machine, a type of hypercomputer. Even the possibilities of these machines, just considered as a theoretical idea are hotly debated and not universally agreed on.  Issues like the halting problem (whether a computer or infinitely patient human mathematician, with infinite amounts of energy, paper and pencils would ever completely solve a mathematical problem, thus halt or go on forever, not halt) that have long been speculated about.  Even the very existence of hypercomputation, (the idea that a computer could calculate mathematical problems that no human could ever solve given infinite time resources or energy to work on it), is debated.

In an article titled The Myth of Hypercomputation by Martin Davis, he states:

Under the banner of “hypercomputation” various claims are being made for the feasibility of modes of computation that go beyond what is permitted by Turing computability. We show that such claims fly in the face of the inability of all currently accepted physical theories to deal with infinite precision real numbers. When the claims are viewed critically, it is seen that they amount to little more than the obvious comment that if non-computable inputs are permitted, then non-computable outputs are attainable.

As another example of unproven statements assumed to be true, the author states that: 

Everything in the cosmos is ordered, lawful and inevitable.  Everything moves according to laws alone, and is predictable and retrodictable by doing calculations with those laws.  These images were all generated mathematically.  The whole nature is a response to intense deterministic order, and this is true for the quantum world as the world of human and bigger sizes.

How does he know that?  Has the entire universe been explored in that much detail that our present mathematical models for gravity & quantum mechanics have reached a level where they could never be radically overturned?  The author goes on to say that, "Although the maths is massive, it is likely to be within the domain of hypercomputation."

To fully cover the idea of Quantum Archeology, a presentation by Giulio Prisco, a brilliant and open thinker is embedded below.



In part two of this series further origins of Quantum Archeology will be explained as well as more objections and problems with it will be discussed.