The following submission statement was provided by /u/I_HaveA_Theory:

This essays talk about the possibility of sequencing and storing our genomic information, paired with a mapping of our closest relationships, in order to encode a simulation of ourselves in the future whenever the technology permits it. It also explores the possibility that this may have already happened, what that would mean, and how entertaining some notion of universal meaning may be called for.

Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/10yyvqa/a_different_kind_of_ark_how_we_can_sequence_and/j80dx4d/