Disclaimer: I have no relevant expertise. That said, FWIW I suspect that whole-body people will be brought back first:
if through bodily reanimation, because repair of the whole body will be easier than replacement of the body given only the severed head
if through scanning/WBE, because it will be possible to scan their spinal columns as well as their brains and it will be easier to build them virtual bodies using their real bodies as a basis.
Though CI don’t offer a neuro option, their focus (obviously) is preserving the information in the brain.
Disclaimer: I have no relevant expertise. That said, FWIW I suspect that whole-body people will be brought back first:
if through bodily reanimation, because repair of the whole body will be easier than replacement of the body given only the severed head
if through scanning/WBE, because it will be possible to scan their spinal columns as well as their brains and it will be easier to build them virtual bodies using their real bodies as a basis.
Though CI don’t offer a neuro option, their focus (obviously) is preserving the information in the brain.