I still never got over my childhood ruined moment when I was a young teenager and realized that “No Kenny, information *can* be created and destroyed for all practical purposes”.

But it’s recreation-as-a-game.

It’s necessary for quantum physics to act “as if” information can neither be create nor destroyed and many of the more fascinating theories such a statistical multiverse or pilot-wave theory are possible resolutions to Laplace’s demon (allowing for determination to come back).

There’s even been a few experiments that, under strictly controlled laboratory conditions, it seems to be possible to prove no-hiding. Maybe this will prove useful in quantum computers. I hope it is.

But here we are today, 2017. I still need my hard drive. I need to anchor memories so I don’t forget things. I’m what’s called one of a set of Information gathering and utilizing systems (IGUS), consisting of sense organs and complex processing mechanisms before visible output that make chaos theory seem like a puff of smoke on a windy day.

So are you.

Now, it’s true they can predict certain brain activities just prior to the point where the N400 kicks in (basically the part where you can start talking to yourself in words in your head, although you can be aware prior to the 400ms mark) – a lag.

But being able to see a few things prior to the N400 doesn’t mean we have no consciousness or conscious control. It just means they’re identifying some of the pathways prior to internal language chatter.

In short the uncertainty of what you’re going to do next, think nexxt, say next, remains. We have free will.

You’re free to believe you don’t. You’re also free to believe that information can neither be created nor destroyed.

But as a pragmatic truth, it’s a fairy-tale right now.

So, I still never got over my childhood ruined moment when I was a young teenager and realized that “No Kenny, information *can* be created and destroyed for all practical purposes”.

I knew I couldn’t just lazily sit back and wait for some future physicist to team up with a technological genius who could team up with an industrialist who could make available an “infinite information backup machine” so I could remember what I was doing 7.5 hours ago.

I still have to anchor my dreams so I don’t forget.

Still have to backup documents. Still have to keep copies of things.

It still bothers me. Information can be created. Information can be destroyed. It’s up to us to hang onto what matters and not let people create false information to replace good information.

The noise can overtake the signal very quickly. Be aware and do what you can.

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