Information-theoretic death

Information-theoretic death is a term of art used in cryonics to define death in a way that is permanent and independent of any future medical advances, no matter how distant or improbable that may be. Because detailed reading or restoration of information-storing brain structures is well beyond current technology, the term lacks practical importance in medicine.^[1]

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^ Sebastian Seung (2012). Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are. Houghton Mifflin. p. 271. ISBN 9780547678597. Merkle's definition of death is of more philosophical than practical importance. To apply it, we need to know exactly how memories, personality, and other aspects of personal identity are stored in the brain.

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[1] Sebastian Seung (2012). Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are. Houghton Mifflin. p. 271. ISBN 9780547678597. Merkle's definition of death is of more philosophical than practical importance. To apply it, we need to know exactly how memories, personality, and other aspects of personal identity are stored in the brain.

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Organizations	21st Century Medicine Alcor Life Extension Foundation American Cryonics Society Brain Preservation Foundation Cryonics Institute Immortalist Society KrioRus Life Extension Society Suspended Animation, Inc Shandong Yinfeng Life Science Research Institute
Concepts	Information-theoretic death Neuropreservation Mind uploading Suspended animation
People	Robert Ettinger Mike Darwin Max More Fred and Linda Chamberlain James Bedford Jerry Leaf Saul Kent Dora Kent Curtis Henderson Raymond and Monique Martinot Robert Prehoda Danila Medvedev Thomas K. Donaldson Brian Wowk Charles Platt
Related topics	Life extension Anti-aging movement