[extropy-chat] Cryonics and uploading

[Heartland]

Ben wrote:
> If a mind and everything in it, including all it's subjective
> opinions and feelings etc., is indeed information (and we know that
> information can be completely represented in a digital form), then thats
> it. That's everything. There is no room left for anything else. At all.
> Hence, the 'you', the 'life', the 'thread' is all in there, all
> information. It's absolutely no good saying "yes, but there's still the
> FLOW of that information, the link to the next brain state, etc.",
> because all that still boils down to information that can be read,
> recorded, and reproduced.

That "flow" is an actual *activity* of matter in space-time which is NOT 
information. Yes, you can record each brain state but it would still be just 
a map, not territory.

Slawomir