Warp wrote:
>   If it exists and it can be created and destroyed, that makes it distinct
> from energy, which cannot be created nor destroyed.

It can be distinct from energy and yet still be made from energy, just like 
sound isn't air but it's made from air.

I'll grant you that "information" in the sense of "patterns of combinations 
of something else" does "exist". I'm not sure you can say something is "made 
out of" information, or that "information" would exist without the substrate 
carrying it.

And I'm still not convinced you can actually destroy information. At the 
quantum level, time is reversible, which means that information at that 
level does *not* get destroyed.  From lots of things I've read, figuring out 
how you can have black holes and QM.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekenstein_bound

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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