[extropy-chat] Death is irreversible v.1.1

[Eric Messick]

>> Heartland: [stating an axiom]
>>>2. Physical activity necessarily requires matter, and that activity *itself* 
>>>cannot
>>>be stored in static information. (Shown in step (2) of the argument).
>>>[...]
>>>This, in turn, leads to:
>>>[...]
>>>And if so, then an absence of an instance is irreversible and no amount of static
>>>information that remains about that instance can bring that instance back from
>>>nonexistence.
>
>Eric:
>> But you basically assumed this above!  This is a circular argument.
>
>The conclusion is that death is irreversible. Do I assume that in (2)?

You concluded:

"no amount of static information [...] can bring that instance [activity] back"

based partly on:

"activity *itself* cannot be stored in static information."

-eric