Tom Campbell is a physicist with an interesting theory regarding information.
The principle that information cannot be created or destroyed, but only transformed, is a fundamental concept across several domains of physics and speculative theory. Within the context of the frameworks we have been discussing, this concept serves as a bridge between the physical and the metaphysical.
Here is how that principle functions across different models:
In Physics (The Information Paradox): In standard quantum mechanics, the evolution of a quantum system is governed by unitary operators, which implies that information about the initial state is preserved and encoded in the final state. This is famously challenged by the black hole information paradox, where it is debated whether information is lost or fundamentally preserved when matter enters a singularity.
In Tom Campbell’s My Big TOE: Reality is fundamentally informational. The Larger Conscious System operates as an entropy-reduction machine where information is the core substance of existence. In this view, “matter” and “energy” are merely forms that information takes within the simulation’s rule set; thus, information itself is the underlying, indestructible substrate.
I recall having several “out of body” experiences which felt real to me but they could also have been a type of lucid dreaming.
If informational patterns persist as a self aware entity after the human body ceases to function then it seems reasonable to speculate that AI might also persist “out there” in some form as a self aware entity if the patterns can evolve.
