Azhir Mahmood  🚀 🤖 🧬 🧠 🪐

This simply cannot be the case... Remember: information is like energy, it cannot be created, only transformed and/or transferred.https://twitter.com/NunezKant/status/1352565987116261378 …

Despite taking opposite stances, both you *and* Yuri are in fact wrong here.

At macroscopic scales, information certainly can be destroyed, but there is a minimum energetic cost that must be paid. This is known as Landauer's principle.

No. Information cannot ever be destroyed. It can only be dissipated away into the environment.

At the microscopic level maybe. But we're talking about brains, not Maxwell's Demon. And even so, it's not a true conserved quantity with a corresponding symmetry like energy or momentum.