{"id":159814,"date":"2023-03-08T09:24:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T15:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/olaf-stapledon-and-the-possibility-of-technological-resurrection"},"modified":"2023-03-08T09:24:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T15:24:02","slug":"olaf-stapledon-and-the-possibility-of-technological-resurrection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/olaf-stapledon-and-the-possibility-of-technological-resurrection","title":{"rendered":"Olaf Stapledon and the possibility of technological resurrection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/olaf-stapledon-and-the-possibility-of-technological-resurrection.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Philosopher and science fiction writer Olaf Stapledon didn\u2019t see the possibility of technological resurrection. Why? He had the building blocks for a physical theory of resurrection in mind, except one.<\/p>\n<p>Stapledon was a deep, thoughtful and highly imaginative thinker, whose works are a source of endless inspiration for me. <a class=\"\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/turingchurch.net\/star-maker-the-cosmic-theology-of-olaf-stapledon-26c80d56c2d9\">I consider \u201c<em class=\"\">Star Maker<\/em>\u201d as a masterpiece of cosmic science fiction and theology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In \u201c<em class=\"\">Philosophy and Living<\/em>,\u201d Stapledon gives a cold shower (soberly and elegantly of course) to the idea of afterlife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philosopher and science fiction writer Olaf Stapledon didn\u2019t see the possibility of technological resurrection. Why? He had the building blocks for a physical theory of resurrection in mind, except one. Stapledon was a deep, thoughtful and highly imaginative thinker, whose works are a source of endless inspiration for me. I consider \u201cStar Maker\u201d as a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}