You can bring 5 people back from the dead for the benefit of humanity. Who do you bring?

My list:

-Da Vinci
-Alan Turing
-MLK Jr
-Muhammad
-Jesus

None. What do you have against the five you mentioned?

The 5 most atheistic founding fathers.

I was resurrected recently; it's not bad!

- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Evariste Galois
- Buddy Holly
- Pope John Paul I
- Duncan Edwards

He was a poet, not a philosopher.

How can you choose Buddy Holly and leave out Eddie Cochran?

I think I would go for these 5 for various reasons.

Socrates
Polybius
Augustus
Newton
John Stuart Mill

It's close. Buddy was the more mystical of the two.

Genghis Khan, Vlad Tepes, Idi Amin, Ivan the Terrible, and Nero. And that is just the quick and dirty off the top of my head.

The young Einstein
Mahatma Gandhi
Wittgenstein, the philosopher
Buddha
Mozart

And, as wild card, the obvious Nicola Tesla

I don't think I would subject anyone I respect to resurrection.

Hitler, Nero, Stalin, Khan, and Mao

(oh, you said benefit, oops)

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I will get it right eventually! Part of it will include getting all the others back on the 5th run by solving the hard problem of the brain lol! Every version has to retain the wisdom of the previous one at death recovered intact near age 13-14 of the new copy but the age restarts at 0 and at 13-14 a miracle transfer happens to merge with what is built up to that point so its not a complete repeat.

makes sense

I've heard that some historians are starting to think Nero was actually less bad than most emperors of the time, and that the bad things we have heard about him were propaganda written by his successors / overthrowers in order to help legitimize their actions.

Caligula, Torquemada, Hitler, Stalin and my ex-mother-in-law. The idea is to put them in a cage fight to the death and I will win a fortune betting on the MiL getting 500 to 1. She's a sure thing, the others won't see it coming.

After reading the thread top to bottom wanted to say you are sexist, for not including any woman worth resurrecting, then in last post i see "ex-mother-in-law".

I wonder what was so special about her to "worth" such honor.

You can add up all of the 'bad' mothers-in-law to have ever appeared on the Jerry Springer show and they don't come close to matching her. I'd back her in a cage fight v. Godzilla, she'd tear him to pieces.

I dont get your Jerry Springer show reference, as i am not american, but its OK.
So you are still all sexist here but i guess it`s not your fault, as woman in the past had no change to do something noticeable and being remembered for...

Hitler - As he escaped, by suicide or other rumors, to get trialed and live a long life in prison
Einstein - with today's knowledge who knows what we can achive (scary thought)
Tesla - with today's technology who knows what we can achive (scary thought)
all people who ever wrote/contributed to a religious book (Bible, Quaran, etc) to say the real truth, whatever that may be.
Elvis - rock`n`roll baby
Marilyn Monroe - just for sexist reasons
Phil Ivey - so he can win WSOP ME

You call others sexist but your choice for a woman is aMarilyn Monroe? She was a decent actress and certainly was attractive, but that seems like a pretty shallow reason to pick her out of all the women who actually accomplished things and/or made the world a better place. Just off the top of my head you could have picked any of Catherine the Great, Queen Elizabeth I, Mother Theresa, Marie Curie, or Harriet Tubman, and that’s without even thinking too hard — I’m sure there are many women I’ve missed who have more significant accomplishments than Marilyn Monroe.

If the goal is the betterment of the world and the resurrection starts at the age he or she died, then among the names mentioned its got to be Galois.

Meanwhile suppose the question was asked 100 years from now and it asked to name 5 million instead of 5. How important to you is it to be on (the good version) of that list?

Ramanujan.
Marie Curie.
Rosalind Franklin.
Euler.
Fermat.

It`s good you got the irony about Phil, but you missed my sexist point... oh well 1 out of 2 is fine i guess.
everyone who is commenting here should have their list of resurrecting people or GTFO.