>>11814989First just to tackle the chances of it being preserved:
I think there's still a ton we don't understand when it comes to black holes and how or where information is stored in them and how it could possibly be recovered outside of the event horizon.
There was a thread about Planck stars with a theory that black holes actually only appear to be a singularity due to the immense gravitational effects. Near where the singularity would form, time essentially passes in almost an instant, but that same time is perceived as billions of years from outside observers. Essentially claiming that black holes are really white holes acting in extremely slow motion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_starIf this is true, then basically from the black hole/collapsed star's perspective it may be like a soup that mixes you up and spits you back out in a violent explosion in way less than a nanosecond. If that's true, I think the information would probably be theoretically lost, since it'd probably all combine into some kind of uniform sub-atomic plasma. But maybe it isn't true and something (the holographic principle? idk) could allow information to be recovered in some way by outside observers (either in real-time or by waiting billions of years for the black hole to invert and spew everything back out).
But my naive guess is that even from a theoretical perspective, the information is totally lost and there's no possible way to recover it.
Now, as you say, assuming it really is perfectly preserved, we can just look at a more simple example like someone who's about to die in a few minutes. Could you theoretically extract out their complete neurological state and make a perfect clone with them with regular thoughts and such? First, the original person would still be dead. But, yes, I think it maybe could be theoretically possible. Maybe it isn't, but I think there's some chance it could be. But if it is, it wouldn't become feasible for many millennia or more from now.
