creating the universe in the first place would be a simple, elegant process compared to setting up the machinery to isolate and retrieve the information needed and then focus it into the future to recreate, to resurrect chosen individuals.
It would have to be a very altruistic society to forgo the pleasures of their own present, forward looking lives, to present some forgotten ancestor with a return to a second presence.
Think of the efforts at CERN to recreate creation on a one-off subatomic level, --just one particle, or
the the work on abiogenesis --just one restart of microscopic size.
Unless consciousness, information can break free from the physical, a hard sell.
bohm. yes, what happens at the planck scale, and in the quantum world is uncontrollable, but perhaps we could just take an individual's data, at a given time and redo it, no matter what convoluted random processes let to that stage in the first place. and even then--