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[–] notabot@piefed.social 12 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Information is destroyed all the time, conciousness is just information, and will cease to exist in a meaningful form when the structure of matter hosting it (your body, and in particular your brain) ceases to function in a way that supports that.

The energy that motivated your body and acted as signals in your brain will disipate. Your actual matter will stick around in one form or another. After all, we are all "star stuff", and given long enough, our "stuff" will return to the universe at large.

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I'm sorry, maybe I'm just dumb, but I didn't think information could be destroyed.

[–] notabot@piefed.social 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Black holes are a good example of information destruction. Matter and energy fall into the gravity well, and eventually are reemited as Hawking radiation, but as far as current theories go, there's no way to reconstruct the information that made up the original matter or energy from that radiation.

Information isn't a "thing" but the relationship between, and exact quantum state of, things. Once that state is disrupted, the information is gone.

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Black holes are a good example of information destruction.

That was actually debunked https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-most-famous-paradox-in-physics-nears-its-end-20201029/

Unless I still misunderstand.

[–] bizza@lemmy.zip 5 points 14 hours ago

No, you understand correctly. Notabot just doesn't know what they're talking about