It just had to be the Russians, didn't it?
The TL;DR version is that this stunt is a theory about resurrection that involves the use of sci-fi Dyson spheres.
Still, you have to be a literal mad scientists to publish something like this:
Notice in this insane diagram that "physical resurrection according to God's will" is at the bottom of the "plausibility" scale.
But loading people's memories onto computers, freezing their bodies, and building spheres that surround stars to capture their energy – that's the ticket right there!
Alexey Turchin theorizes that we only need to build a Dyson sphere – an unthinkably large object that would surround our entire sun to capture its energy.
Here is an illustration of said Dyson sphere so you understand the insane complexity of what he's talking about. The glowing bright thing at the center is our sun, and the sphere or rings built around it would be hundreds of millions of miles around and across:
With that much energy, Turchin says we'd be able to generate enough "computing energy from the sun" to recreate a person based on their digital roadmap and recorded memories. They could then live in a virtual simulator akin to the Matrix before dying and going to a virtual afterlife.
So basically, in order to resurrect ourselves as somewhat accurate "Sims" characters, we'd have to have the power of God Himself. Mmk.
I'm pretty sure this was already a plotline in the Halo game franchise, where the mysterious alien Forerunners built Dyson spheres and rings – and even had a Matrix-like digital world called the "Domain."
His chart also includes ideas that include "we are in the simulation," discovering "new physics," analyzing "the entire surface of Earth at atomic levels," and "teleportation to a parallel world."
As the author of two sci-fi novels, I'll say that I'm impressed with his creativity.
