Heslington Brain
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That said, I'm just a developer sitting here at my desk not a brain scientist so that's probably not a very useful guess lol
If we are entertaining theoretically possible future tech: Provided there are enough neurons and it would be possible to reconstruct their connections, we could scan them, create a custom built model for the rest of the brain (the part that is missing/unrecoverable), plug it in and simulate it.
Consciousness debate aside, we might be able to recover some memories from it and talk to it.
But my guess is that all the data is lost already.
Some of the better sci-fi books that have ressurection as a theme are
https://www.amazon.com/gods-foxcroft-David-Levy/dp/B000GR593...
and
As the blurb on the front cover says, it's "a bit flawed and a lot of fun".
Occam suggests the prior. But by that logic there are little people living inside my tv.
Even though cells and extracellular mass die, bleb, apoptose, desiccate, etc., there should still be an overwhelming amount of signal there for future societies to unpack. We shouldn't limit ourselves to our current understanding and techniques.
As impossible as it sounds, I'm still fond of the fanciful idea that a super sentience will capture all of the light emitted within our light cone and simulate everything that ever happened.
Cool idea
Both public display of an executed person, and mutilation of the corpse, have a history in several cultures. For example, in the case of the Ancient Egyptians, integrity of the body was important even after death. Destroying the remains of a person was highly symbolic, a kind of erasing them in the afterlife as well.
Much more recently, the early modern English often performed executions in public, with disfigurement either during or after the execution. In the most important cases - traitors and such - they carefully removed the heads, gave them a preservative treatment, and put them on a spike for public display. They actually dug up Oliver Cromwell after he had been buried, just so they could mutilate his corpse. The early modern Chinese also did things like that. Probably other cultures too.
I guess my point is that a great deal of care might have gone into the spectacle of a public execution.
Yes, even worse than the series finale of Enterprise.
It's Star Wars Holiday Special levels of torture to watch—but, mercifully, much shorter.
Cat's Paw (another TOS episode) is also in the running.
...and am looking forward to an update in which we learn the name and then age of the undergraduates that dug them up and what pranks they played with them.
https://web.archive.org/web/20101112065654/http://www.ucl.ac...
Ritual killings have elements not related to the act of killing, serial ritual killings demonstrate a repeated pattern of ritual .. it's killing with obsessive complusive and|or psycho sexual flourishes.
Ritual murder = we kill because it's our custom; e.g. captured warriors could get killed to celebrate victory.
Human sacrifice (a form of ritual murder) = we make an offering and we expect certain rewards. E.g. we sacrifice 100 citizens because we believe we need to meet a quota and otherwise the sun won't go up.