I think that’s where the danger in noetics lies – it starts with a metaphysical construct and tries to fit physics around it to lend it some sort of empirical strength. Unfortunately it requires so much flexibility in definition, what you have in the end isn’t the same principles you started with.

Been thinking about the mass loss / heat dissipation issue. So I think you are saying a neurological “soul’s” information would be stored in chemical compounds? Then the laws of entropy would dictate that, at the time of death, they would assume a state of greater disorder, which normally means less energy. Unless all of those chemical states were energetically equivalent, I would still expect that to cause heat dissipation. Measurable? Hell no!

Giving too much credit to a hoax? Of course! But you started it, not I I’m just enjoying the intellectual distraction …

Thanks for the help, btw. I keep thinking I might be giving too much credit to what is some widespread hoax. Such a thin line between parody and reality sometimes, it’s easy to get them confused.

There seems to be no edit option here. Could you do that for me?