The problem of the soul

[HappySkeptic]

"Information" when used this way seems highly Platonic without any better way of approaching the ancient dilemmas around concepts like universals, Ideas, and essenses.

That's what I thought. Maybe even a little Pythagorean.

I hear what @HappySkeptic  is saying though. It's a reduction that a physicist may be prone to make. A line of criticism, though, is that it may be too reductionist. I myself am a hopeless reductionist though. So I can sympathize, lol.

Well, I am a physicist, and an information-centric view of quantum mechanics makes sense.  The two most fundamental things in the quantum world are information and events.

Yes, it is reductionist.  Even if this is proven to be an entirely wrong one day, it likely doesn't matter.  I believe in emergent properties.  I just think it is interesting, and I think those who say "how can mind come from mindless matter" could ponder it.