Most people here are arguing whether a computer simulation can be you, but even if it can (the idea I'm partial to), how much "you" can you get just of of recordings left by you? Seems like too sparse of dataset even if you post a lot. There was a Black Mirror episode with this exact premise. "Be right back" or something.
This article is a summary of a paper by two Russian dudes that starts with explaining the ideas of Russian cosmism. Fedorov came up with the idea that to fullfull the Christian prophesy scientists would figure out the way to ressurect everyone who's ever lived, but because that's a lot of people we also need to colonise other planets for them to live there. Fedorov was a mentor to Tsiolkovsky, got him interested in space travel and rockets.
Why would be digital model of a biological brain be impossible? There are already digital models of small parts of brains of varying degrees of accuracy.
Like 90% of the animes that reference some DnD-adjacent thing in the title are about "clever" subversion of the genre through copious amounts of sexual violence.
Master Designer was made after glasnost was established and Viy is based on classic Russian literature.
I'd argue that lack of horror movies had more to do with the genre being disfavoured by the ministry of culture with actually paid for the movies to be made. From my experience there were obvious things that Soviet people feared. People feared nuclear war. Some people feared becoming a target of political repression.
Most people here are arguing whether a computer simulation can be you, but even if it can (the idea I'm partial to), how much "you" can you get just of of recordings left by you? Seems like too sparse of dataset even if you post a lot. There was a Black Mirror episode with this exact premise. "Be right back" or something.