The Future of Archeology (Narration Only)
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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Using AI to Resurrect Extinct Animals
A greater knowledge of genetics can also let you make educated guesses to fill in blanks based on what you know the needed functions are. We contemplate this technology for brains frozen in cryo for future resurrection and if luck found us a well-frozen body or one very untouched we might be able to bring them back by copying their brain digitally. Sadly the most obvious candidate ancient Egypt and their habit of mummifying people and putting their organs in sealed canopic jars won't work here but perhaps some other culture may have kept an unevalured brain rather than tossing it out. Either way while our ancestors of the past made unevalitated brains and discarded them we have no desire to discard our
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