# Can "Information" be destroyed?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-information-be-destroyed/585947>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 18, 2011, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-information-be-destroyed/585947 "2011-06-18T17:50:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2011, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-information-be-destroyed/585947/61 "2011-06-20T12:38:47Z")

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> [@tim314](#):
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> Well, the OP did ask about information “as scientists describe it”.

But then he detoured into the persistence of human intelligence after death, which is much less science and more metaphysics. As I said, there is a confusion of terms here, where the OP is hoping the behavior of scientific “information” might apply to the “information” contained in the human mind, and there is just no relationship between the two.

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