- Participants debated the feasibility of “digital immortality” via extensive diary/blog writing, with fenn explicitly rejecting the idea that accumulating enough personal text can recreate a person.  
- Ray Kurzweil’s project to “resurrect” his late father by training an AI on every available record of his life was cited as a real-world attempt at post-mortem mind reconstruction.  
- The conversation explored philosophical continuity of identity, using examples such as stroke-induced cognitive decline and extreme dementia to argue that partial memory loss does not negate personal identity.  
- A hypothetical Star Trek holodeck-style avatar based on incomplete data was floated as an acceptable fictional portrayal, provided everyone understands it is not the original person.  
- Concerns were voiced about “snarky babbling bobblehead bots” impersonating deceased individuals, highlighting fears of low-fidelity digital ghosts.  
- Edge cases like pregnant brain-dead patients were mentioned to probe the boundary between biological persistence and personal identity after brain death.