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	==Credits==		==Credits==
	Portions of this article were originally copied from content on Information Theoretic Death at Wikipedia.org (2010), and En-Academic.com (2021), using a Creative Commons License.		Portions of this article were originally copied from content on Information Theoretic Death at Wikipedia.org (2010), and En-Academic.com (2021), using a compatible Creative Commons License.

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	The exact timing of information-theoretic death is currently unknown. It has been speculated to occur gradually after several hours of clinical death at room temperature as the brain undergoes autolysis. It can also occur if there is no blood flow to the brain during life support, leading to the decomposition stage of brain death, or during the progression of degenerative brain diseases that cause extensive loss of brain structure.		The exact timing of information-theoretic death is currently unknown. It has been speculated to occur gradually after several hours of clinical death at room temperature as the brain undergoes autolysis. It can also occur if there is no blood flow to the brain during life support, leading to the decomposition stage of brain death, or during the progression of degenerative brain diseases that cause extensive loss of brain structure.

	Information-theoretic death arises in the context of [[cryonics]], which can be viewed as the use of cryopreservation to attempt to prevent information-theoretic death. If currently preserved cryonics patients are not dead by information theoretic criteria, then it may be possible to revive those patients by using a sufficiently advanced ~~future~~ medical technology. If the information encoded in the brain of a particular cryonics patient has been completely destroyed, then revival of that patient may not ever become feasible. Because of this, the use of information-theoretic criteria has formed the basis of an ethical argument that states that cryonics is an attempt to save lives, rather than being an interment method for the dead.		Information-theoretic death arises in the context of [[cryonics]], which can be viewed as the use of cryopreservation to attempt to prevent information-theoretic death. If currently preserved cryonics patients are not dead by information theoretic criteria, then it may be possible to revive those patients in the future using sufficiently advanced medical technology. If the information encoded in the brain of a particular cryonics patient has been completely destroyed, then revival of that patient may not ever become feasible. Because of this, the use of information-theoretic criteria has formed the basis of an ethical argument that states that cryonics is an attempt to save lives, rather than being an interment method for the dead.

	==External Links==		==External Links==

	*Molecular Repair of the Brain (http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/MolecularRepairOfTheBrain.htm)		*Molecular Repair of the Brain. (http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/MolecularRepairOfTheBrain.htm)
	*Pro/con ethics debate: When is dead really dead? (http://www.timeoutintensiva.it/archivio/cc3894.pdf?PHPSESSID=79a9b2cb47d09efdc8081c2f4e75ed07)		*Pro/con ethics debate: When is dead really dead? (http://www.timeoutintensiva.it/archivio/cc3894.pdf?PHPSESSID=79a9b2cb47d09efdc8081c2f4e75ed07)
	*Ethics review: Dark angels-- the problem of death in intensive care (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2151911/)		*Ethics review: Dark angels - the problem of death in intensive care. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2151911/)
	*Albert Einstein’s brain and information-theoretic death (https://www.biostasis.com/albert-einsteins-brain-and-information-theoretic-death/)		*Albert Einstein’s brain and information-theoretic death. (https://www.biostasis.com/albert-einsteins-brain-and-information-theoretic-death/)

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	~~Parts~~ of this article were originally copied from ~~articles~~ on Information Theoretic Death at Wikipedia.org (2010), and En-Academic.com (2021), using a Creative Commons License.		Portions of this article were originally copied from content on Information Theoretic Death at Wikipedia.org (2010), and En-Academic.com (2021), using a Creative Commons License.

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	The paper "Molecular Repair of the Brain"<ref>Ralph C. Merkle, “Molecular Repair of the Brain,” '''Cryonics''' 10(October 1989):21-44</ref> by Ralph Merkle defined information-theoretic death as follows:		The paper "Molecular Repair of the Brain"<ref>Ralph C. Merkle, “Molecular Repair of the Brain,” '''Cryonics''' 10(October 1989):21-44</ref> by Ralph Merkle defined information-theoretic death as follows:
			A person is dead according to the information-theoretic criterion if their memories, personality, hopes, dreams, etc. have been destroyed in the information-theoretic sense. That is, if the structures in the brain that encode memory and personality have been so disrupted that it is no longer possible in principle to restore them to an appropriate functional state then the person is dead. If the structures that encode memory and personality are sufficiently intact that inference of the memory and personality are feasible in principle, and therefore restoration to an appropriate functional state is likewise feasible in principle, then the person is not dead.
	A person is dead according to the information-theoretic criterion if their memories, personality, hopes, dreams, etc. have been destroyed in the information-theoretic sense. That is, if the structures in the brain that encode memory and personality have been so disrupted that it is no longer possible in principle to restore them to an appropriate functional state then the person is dead. If the structures that encode memory and personality are sufficiently intact that inference of the memory and personality are feasible in principle, and therefore restoration to an appropriate functional state is likewise feasible in principle, then the person is not dead.

	The exact timing of information-theoretic death is currently unknown. It has been speculated to occur gradually after several hours of clinical death at room temperature as the brain undergoes autolysis. It can also occur if there is no blood flow to the brain during life support, leading to the decomposition stage of brain death, or during the progression of degenerative brain diseases that cause extensive loss of brain structure.		The exact timing of information-theoretic death is currently unknown. It has been speculated to occur gradually after several hours of clinical death at room temperature as the brain undergoes autolysis. It can also occur if there is no blood flow to the brain during life support, leading to the decomposition stage of brain death, or during the progression of degenerative brain diseases that cause extensive loss of brain structure.

	Information-theoretic death arises in the context of [[cryonics]], which can be viewed as the use of cryopreservation to attempt to prevent information-theoretic death. If currently preserved cryonics patients are not dead by information theoretic criteria, then it may be possible to revive those patients by using a sufficiently advanced future medical technology. If the information encoded in the brain of a particular cryonics patient has been completely destroyed, then revival of that patient may not ever become feasible. Because of this, the use of information-theoretic criteria has formed the basis of an ethical argument that states that cryonics is an attempt to save lives, rather than being an interment method for the dead.		Information-theoretic death arises in the context of [[cryonics]], which can be viewed as the use of cryopreservation to attempt to prevent information-theoretic death. If currently preserved cryonics patients are not dead by information theoretic criteria, then it may be possible to revive those patients by using a sufficiently advanced future medical technology. If the information encoded in the brain of a particular cryonics patient has been completely destroyed, then revival of that patient may not ever become feasible. Because of this, the use of information-theoretic criteria has formed the basis of an ethical argument that states that cryonics is an attempt to save lives, rather than being an interment method for the dead.

	== External Links ==		==External Links==

			*Molecular Repair of the Brain (http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/MolecularRepairOfTheBrain.htm)
			*Pro/con ethics debate: When is dead really dead? (http://www.timeoutintensiva.it/archivio/cc3894.pdf?PHPSESSID=79a9b2cb47d09efdc8081c2f4e75ed07)
			*Ethics review: Dark angels-- the problem of death in intensive care (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2151911/)
			*Albert Einstein’s brain and information-theoretic death (https://www.biostasis.com/albert-einsteins-brain-and-information-theoretic-death/)

	* Molecular Repair of ~~the Brain (http://www.alcor~~.org~~/Library/html/MolecularRepairOfTheBrain.htm)~~		==Credits==
	* Pro/con ethics debate: When is dead really dead? (http://www.timeoutintensiva.it/archivio/cc3894.pdf?PHPSESSID=79a9b2cb47d09efdc8081c2f4e75ed07)		Parts of this article were copied from articles on Information Theoretic Death at Wikipedia.org (2010), and En-Academic.com (2021), using a Creative Commons License.
	* Ethics review: Dark angels-- the problem of death in intensive care (~~https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2151911/~~)
	* Albert Einstein’s brain and ~~information~~-~~theoretic death (https://www.biostasis~~.com~~/albert-einsteins-brain-and-information-theoretic-death/~~)

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	The exact timing of information-theoretic death is currently unknown. It has been speculated to occur gradually after several hours of clinical death at room temperature as the brain undergoes autolysis. It can also occur if there is no blood flow to the brain during life support, leading to the decomposition stage of brain death, or during the progression of degenerative brain diseases that cause extensive loss of brain structure.		The exact timing of information-theoretic death is currently unknown. It has been speculated to occur gradually after several hours of clinical death at room temperature as the brain undergoes autolysis. It can also occur if there is no blood flow to the brain during life support, leading to the decomposition stage of brain death, or during the progression of degenerative brain diseases that cause extensive loss of brain structure.

	Information-theoretic death arises in the context of cryonics, which can be viewed as the use of cryopreservation to attempt to prevent information-theoretic death. If ~~the~~ currently preserved cryonics patients are not dead by information theoretic criteria, then it may be possible to revive those patients by using a sufficiently advanced future medical technology. If the information encoded in the brain of a ~~specific~~ cryonics patient has been destroyed, then revival of that ~~cryonics~~ patient may not ever be feasible. Because of this, the use of information-theoretic criteria has formed the basis of ethical ~~arguments~~ that ~~state~~ that cryonics is an attempt to save lives rather than being an interment method for the dead.		Information-theoretic death arises in the context of [[cryonics]], which can be viewed as the use of cryopreservation to attempt to prevent information-theoretic death. If currently preserved cryonics patients are not dead by information theoretic criteria, then it may be possible to revive those patients by using a sufficiently advanced future medical technology. If the information encoded in the brain of a particular cryonics patient has been completely destroyed, then revival of that patient may not ever become feasible. Because of this, the use of information-theoretic criteria has formed the basis of an ethical argument that states that cryonics is an attempt to save lives, rather than being an interment method for the dead.

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	The exact timing of information-theoretic death is currently unknown. It has been speculated to occur gradually after several hours of clinical death at room temperature as the brain undergoes autolysis. It can also occur if there is no blood flow to the brain during life support, leading to the decomposition stage of brain death, or during the progression of degenerative brain diseases that cause extensive loss of brain structure.		The exact timing of information-theoretic death is currently unknown. It has been speculated to occur gradually after several hours of clinical death at room temperature as the brain undergoes autolysis. It can also occur if there is no blood flow to the brain during life support, leading to the decomposition stage of brain death, or during the progression of degenerative brain diseases that cause extensive loss of brain structure.

	Information-theoretic death arises in the context of cryonics, which can be viewed as the use of cryopreservation to attempt to prevent information-theoretic death. If ~~current cryopreserved~~ patients are not dead by information theoretic criteria, then it may be possible to revive those patients by using a sufficiently advanced future medical technology. If the information encoded in the ~~brains~~ of cryonics ~~patients~~ has been destroyed, then revival of cryonics ~~patients~~ may not be feasible. ~~Therefore~~, the use of information-theoretic criteria has formed the basis of ethical arguments that state that cryonics is an attempt to save lives rather than being an interment method for the dead.		Information-theoretic death arises in the context of cryonics, which can be viewed as the use of cryopreservation to attempt to prevent information-theoretic death. If the currently preserved cryonics patients are not dead by information theoretic criteria, then it may be possible to revive those patients by using a sufficiently advanced future medical technology. If the information encoded in the brain of a specific cryonics patient has been destroyed, then revival of that cryonics patient may not ever be feasible. Because of this, the use of information-theoretic criteria has formed the basis of ethical arguments that state that cryonics is an attempt to save lives rather than being an interment method for the dead.

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	The exact timing of information-theoretic death is currently unknown. It has been speculated to occur gradually after several hours of clinical death at room temperature as the brain undergoes autolysis. It can also occur if there is no blood flow to the brain during life support, leading to the decomposition stage of brain death, or during the progression of degenerative brain diseases that cause extensive loss of brain structure.		The exact timing of information-theoretic death is currently unknown. It has been speculated to occur gradually after several hours of clinical death at room temperature as the brain undergoes autolysis. It can also occur if there is no blood flow to the brain during life support, leading to the decomposition stage of brain death, or during the progression of degenerative brain diseases that cause extensive loss of brain structure.

	"Information-theoretic death~~" also~~ arises in the context of cryonics, which can be viewed as the use of cryopreservation to attempt to prevent information-theoretic death. ~~The~~ use of information-theoretic criteria has formed the basis of ethical arguments that state that cryonics is an attempt to save lives rather than being an interment method for the dead~~. In contrast, if cryonics cannot be applied before information-theoretic death occurs, or if the cryopreservation procedure itself causes information-theoretic death, then cryonics is not feasible~~.		Information-theoretic death arises in the context of cryonics, which can be viewed as the use of cryopreservation to attempt to prevent information-theoretic death. If current cryopreserved patients are not dead by information theoretic criteria, then it may be possible to revive those patients by using a sufficiently advanced future medical technology. If the information encoded in the brains of cryonics patients has been destroyed, then revival of cryonics patients may not be feasible. Therefore, the use of information-theoretic criteria has formed the basis of ethical arguments that state that cryonics is an attempt to save lives rather than being an interment method for the dead.

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