English Explanatory Dictionary

information-theoretic death

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The point at which a person's unique memories and individual personality traits are no longer present in a form that could be read or inferred by future technologies; the complete loss of the information that defines an individual.

Word forms

information-theoretic death information-theoretic deaths

Etymology

From information theory + -ic + death, based on clinical death. Coined by American cryptographer and cryonicist Ralph Merkle.

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