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I'm not sure this adds anything useful to the conversation, but I don't believe the word "soul" maps very well to any real thing: we may as well be talking about the "quingel", the "probble", the "finglam" or the "subvick".

There's no neuroanatomic basis for a "soul", but there is at least some extremely fuzzy mapping from neuroanatomy to the concept of "consciousness". It's a bad mapping, but it means more than nothing at all.

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And I reject the idea that taking the perspective of information is taking a dualist perspective. I am advocating for the opposite: taking "information" seriously as some sort of low-level quantum substrate of the universe. It's a purely materialist view, where the material is literal information.

An extreme version of this, which I find quite intellectually useful, is the mathematical universe. [1]

Note that in your examples of information, you are pointing to higher-level information, which emerges in complex systems. It's not an incompatible view!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothes...



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