RE: Life After Death Is Impossible, Says Scientist
February 21, 2021 at 11:43 pm
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(February 21, 2021 at 10:53 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: Indeed there is a theory by Leonard Susskind that says information is indestructible. Admittedly, it is way over my head so I am unable to evaluate it. Google it and see what you can make of it.
I found your comment interesting. I had to read a review paper on the philosophy of information a few years ago (and agree it is way over my head as well). But there was a paragraph in that paper that always stood out to me and which I always wanted to go back and review:
"Informational realism arises from Wiener’s conception of information, according to which information is neither matter nor energy, but a third property that constitutes the world. Moreover, Wiener says that information is the content that can be exchanged with the environment to adjust us to it. In this view, the universe, including human beings, is composed of information, matter, and energy" (Adams, 2016).
Viewing information as an entity unto itself is interesting, but observing the universe from the standpoint of information is fascinating. It brings a certain cohesion to everything from consciousness to genetics, over into spacetime. I'm sure Leonard Susskind's theory fits nicely into that framework. (Norbert Wiener was the originator of cybernetics.)
Reference: Adams, F., de Moraes, J.A. (2016) Is there a philosophy of information? Topoi 35, 161-171.