Where is the information stored?

[watchamadoodle]

When I was a sophomore physics student, I was lucky enough to attend a surprise lecture by Richard Feynman.

1. Man you're old
2. Lucky bastard!!!

Yep, that was probably 1987. Feynman was retired, but one day I went to physics class, and the the professor took everyboy present (only about 20) over to the large lecture hall. It was mostly professors except for us few students. I'm glad I went to class that day

It seems like the idea was related to the "mind-body" problem possibly. Maybe somebody here will have a thought? I feel like it was important, and maybe it was the point of the lecture. (It's almost like I owe it to Feynman to understand what he was trying to tell me... silly I guess.)

I don't know how it would be related to the mind-body problem, but maybe you can give a hint? Except that as above I tried to motivate that information can be viewed as a physical quantity like energy.

That's it exactly (what you said that I marked in bold). I can't decide if that is profound or not. Like if thoughts are emergent properties of the physical machinery of our brains, then maybe it is obvious that physical laws apply to thoughts/information?

Are thoughts a real thing like mass, energy, etc. or are they an emergent thing? I don't know what Feynman's opinion was on that question, but I think that's what his knowing smile was about. He could see from my facial expression that I was thinking about that question. It seems like a very wooish idea to me.