Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

information-theoretic death

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.59 in modern English

Syllables: in-for-ma-tion-the-o-ret-ic death
IPA

39

Scrabble Score

25

Letters

8

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

From information theory + -ic + death, based on clinical death. Coined by American cryptographer and cryonicist Ralph Merkle.

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

information-theoretic deaths (plural)

Questions

What does information-theoretic death mean?: 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.
Where does information-theoretic death come from?: From information theory + -ic + death, based on clinical death. Coined by American cryptographer and cryonicist Ralph Merkle.

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