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information-theoretic deaths

information-theoretic deaths is the plural of information-theoretic death.

Meaning of information-theoretic death

Noun

information-theoretic death (usually uncountable, plural information-theoretic deaths)

  1. (usually) The point at which a person's unique memories and individual personality traits are no longer present in a form that could be read or inferred by future technologies; the complete loss of the information that defines an individual.
    • Information-theoretic death occurs several hours following clinical death. Dying is a process, and in the ideal case cryonics intervention procedures begin immediately after the heart stops beating and prior to brain death.2021, Calvin Mercer, Tracy J. Trothen, Religion and the Technological Future: An Introduction to Biohacking, Artificial Intelligence, and Transhumanism, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 147

Questions about information-theoretic deaths

What is information-theoretic deaths the plural of?
Information-theoretic deaths is the plural of information-theoretic death.

Words near information-theoretic deaths in the dictionary

  1. information velocity
  2. information warfare
  3. information-security
  4. information-theoretic
  5. information-theoretic death
  6. information-theoretic deaths
  7. information-theoretical
  8. informational
  9. informationalisation
  10. informationalisations
  11. informationalism

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