Danny Jones

No, no, no.

If computers are bound by the laws of entropy and hard drives are bound by the laws of entropy, that means when a computer is blank, it's very low entropy because it's all ones or it's all zeros.

When you add data, when you add a podcast to it, it goes 1-0, 1-0, 1-0.

It's chaotic.

Just from a pure physical perspective, it's high entropy.

So –

What happens when you erase that hard drive?

You have to, the energy has to go, has to leave.

If it's mass on the hard drive, theoretically, if this guy's right, if Rolf Landauer's right, that data on the hard drive is mass.

When you erase that, it has to go to energy outside of the hard drive, right?

So he says, but if you crack open a hard drive, you can't see that mass, right?

It's invisible.

It's electromagnetically indetectable, right?

So he says, what other kind of mass do we know of that's electromagnetically indetectable?

And he said, it's dark matter.

So if mass is the same thing as information stored on a hard drive, that would mean not only is mass and energy interchangeable, but mass, energy, and information are interchangeable, right?

So if dark matter is mass, you could then say,

that dark matter is a computational cloud of ones and zeros.

And our consciousness is an interface to that that gives it meaning.

The same way a computer screen gives meaning to all the ones and zeros on the hard drive.