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The difference here I think is that the information is not the primitive, energy is. Information can regulate uncertainty and thereby modulate energy expenditure expectations.
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Maybe we can define psychological death as an expectation of system-breaking energy surge you know you cannot produce. As in, “I can’t outrun the lion” sort of thing. All you can do is turn Buddhist extremely fast before the lion pounces.
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Happily ever after = terminal boundary condition = zero watts state of death But via big maxed-out failed spike, Iike death convulsions Hmm, macabre thought, what’s the energy load of various ways to die? I think I’d like to glide smoothly to zero.
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Energy of course is just one variable in a bodily response. I expect fatal acute respiratory distress isn’t particularly high energy, but the distress will come from the fact that the energetic response (willed+automatic) won’t regulate the pain signal.
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Okay, new twist: agency. If energetic actions actually affect the pain/pleasure and expectations thereof, it’s “good” energy output. It’s good if you’re closing a gap, bad if the gap is widening anyway. If you can actually outrun the lion, it becomes a game.
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Imagine someone approaching death. Most of the events on the horizon are predictable (tests, medicines, strange hospital environment with strange nurses and doctors poking/prodding you, growing discomfort, increasingly aggressive body envelope violation with tubes/needles...)
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But by definition, dying will mean more and more of the tests will come back with bad news and trigger more discomfort and activity. Your overall sense of well-being will decline even as energy output by you and on your behalf goes up, with falling effectiveness. Lion catching up
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At some point the ultimate irreversible event horizon will appear. This way, at 49% likelihood, lies a chaotic, energetic struggle and recovery. That way, at 51%, lies the Game Over. The uncertainty regulation here will break down discontinuously. The mortality singularity.
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Hmm. I think I’ve uncovered a conceptual question: what’s the difference between regular irreversibility and death? Answer is approximately “there is nothing it’s like to look back and feel loss from the other side because there’s no continuous I-self making the transition”
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Straggling thought. Exercise lowers stress because it recalibrates your sense of how much power you can output. A cognitive “pump” effect that temporarily makes your uncertainty regulation band larger. Of course it doesn’t last so many just turn into gym addicts.
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