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Can Physics explain where information goes when you die? See details...?

Hi, this question is probably very flawed and I have a very limited knowledge of physics or anatomy for that matter, but using the idea of entropy in thermodynamics as well as the thought that information can never be lost (in the universe?) could physics ever prove where it goes when it comes to a complex living organism dying? I am trying to conceptualize what happens to all our memories, thoughts, ect that were created in our cells using heat/energy when we die. I am assuming it is dispersed back into the world from which it came.

Theoretically though, could those tiny information carrying cells be identified in the quantum world? Perhaps identified and located outside of the no longer present organism that manufactured it?

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  • Jim
    Lv 4
    10 years ago
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    Mmmmmm..........bordering on philosophy here, a subject that physicists tend to try to avoid. It is true to say that a thought involving all the biology that goes with it permanently changes the universe and as such is immortalised. However it is also true to say that it is an IRREVERSIBLE PROCESS.

    Entropy always increases. You could also argue that the physical external world IS just a collection of thoughts.

    The point about Physics is that if you can't get others to agree with you, then your theory is not accepted. So it reduces to anthropology and the sociology of Universtiy Professors.

    The present state of the universe could have resulted from so many initial states though that the information is lost for ever.............so conventional wisdom tells us.

    Source(s): Jim Dept of Physics Imperial College London
  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    This Q. is very complicated and is only a theory and not a fact.

    Astronomy in theology is old like if you die, all you personal information is gather and send in havens for keep. I do not know if is trough only a theory we all believe in deception. Believe on something we never see.

    now we come to recording every living thing from earth, then send in space and keep in files, this theory is a new theory = o- a dark collar discover by Europeans 3 years ago. According to them the information stays in the wall of each black hole and can not be collected at this time this is all I know.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    10 years ago

    I never heard of the concept that "information can never be lost." I sure do not believe in this concept. When I lose a hard disk that is not backed up, the information on it is lost forever. That goes with a human brain that information on it was not backed up by written or recorded means, or was not passed on to others by teaching or telling. It is difficult enough to find the information in a live brain, you might as well forget about it in a dead brain.

  • Alex M
    Lv 5
    10 years ago

    Information is not equivalent to energy, as information can be stored in any form, such as a certain structure, so it can be destroyed.

    Information in your brain is stored by billions of links between neurones. When you die, the information will still be there until the brain starts breaking down. Then the information will be lost as the links are destroyed.

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  • 10 years ago

    when we die we die and then our body decomposes. our thoughts and memories die with us.

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