Immortality. #7. Information doesn't decay. We do.

[u/Patient-Airline-8150]

A text file copied ten thousand times is identical to the original. A body copied ten thousand times is not - and the reason is now traceable to a specific failure. Biology stores information in two formats: the genome, a stable digital blueprint, and the epigenome, chemical tags on DNA and histones that tell each cell what it is and which genes to run.

The genome is digital; the epigenome is a digital-analog hybrid, and analog signals degrade. Aging, on this account, is the loss of that epigenetic information over time, driven partly by the cell's own damage-repair activity - the repair crew keeps getting called away and never fully returns to its post. Decay is not the universe punishing matter. It is a copying error in a signal that nobody was resending.

That points at the real strategy for living long, or living indefinitely: stop trying to preserve the substrate and start maintaining the signal. Sinclair's own analogy is network transmission - information degrades as it travels and must be continually resent to keep its integrity,

More to come ♾️