Could life be based on just information and no matter or energy?
What if consciousnes is the highest level of life...or what if life as we know it is there as a mean that leads to development of consciousnes....?
Could life be based on just information and no matter or energy?
What if consciousnes is the highest level of life...or what if life as we know it is there as a mean that leads to development of consciousnes....?
I think life at the most basic level is information, indeed. Information that can be copied, modified and transmitted.
It is hard to think about a definite direction or goal for life. However, it is difficult to take ourselves and our perceptions out of the frame and look at the phenomenon of consciousness from an outside perspective. Would it be a property that emerges every time life arises, eventually? I wonder...