{"id":2,"date":"2019-04-07T14:04:48","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T18:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/35.203.58.29\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-09-25T12:05:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T16:05:48","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/informationalself.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Informational Self \u2014 A New Way of Seeing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style>\n\/* Styles apply only to a page containing this Gutenberg design. *\/\nbody:has(.is-home) #main .panel-content>.wrap{width:100%;max-width:none;padding:0}\nbody:has(.is-home){background:#f6f3eb;color:#183c35}\nbody:has(.is-home) #masthead,body:has(.is-home) #colophon,body:has(.is-home) .wpml-ls-statics-footer,body:has(.is-home) .entry-header{display:none}\nbody:has(.is-home) #content,body:has(.is-home) #content>.wrap,body:has(.is-home) #primary,body:has(.is-home) #main,body:has(.is-home) .page .entry-content{width:100%;max-width:none;padding:0;margin:0;float:none}\nbody:has(.is-home) 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is-nav\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"is-brand wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#top\">Informational Self<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"is-navlinks wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#explore\">Explore<\/a><a href=\"#perspective\">The project<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-languages wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informationalself.com\/\" hreflang=\"en\" lang=\"en\" aria-current=\"page\">English<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/informationalself.com\/?lang=fr\" hreflang=\"fr\" lang=\"fr\">Fran\u00e7ais<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/informationalself.com\/?lang=de\" hreflang=\"de\" lang=\"de\">Deutsch<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/informationalself.com\/?lang=es\" hreflang=\"es\" lang=\"es\">Espa\u00f1ol<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/informationalself.com\/?lang=it\" hreflang=\"it\" lang=\"it\">Italiano<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/informationalself.com\/?lang=hi\" hreflang=\"hi\" lang=\"hi\">\u0939\u093f\u0928\u094d\u0926\u0940<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-hero\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-hero-copy\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"is-kicker wp-block-paragraph\">A new way to understand yourself<\/p>\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Not spirit.<br>Not supernatural.<br>Informational.<\/h1>\n\n<p class=\"is-lead wp-block-paragraph\">For thousands of years, humans have used words such as spirit and soul to describe something real but difficult to explain: memory, identity, thought, agency, inner experience and continuity. The Informational Self asks whether these phenomena are better understood not as a supernatural substance, but as information embodied and processed by living systems.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"is-cta wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informationalself.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/you-are-made-of-living-information\/\">Discover the informational self \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"is-caption wp-block-paragraph\">A secular perspective on identity, meaning and continuity.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-idea-card\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"is-card-quote wp-block-paragraph\">The phenomena are real. The supernatural explanation may not be.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"is-card-note wp-block-paragraph\">Life. Memory. Identity.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-thesis\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"is-kicker wp-block-paragraph\">The central idea<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The central proposal is a reclassification: many phenomena historically attributed to spirit or soul may be better explained as embodied informational processes. DNA carries information across generations; brains encode and reconstruct memory; learning changes neural networks; language and culture transmit information between people and across time. No supernatural entity is required by these explanations.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-continuing\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-continuing-head\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"is-kicker wp-block-paragraph\">Continuity without supernaturalism<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">We are part of a continuing informational history.<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"is-continuing-intro wp-block-paragraph\">Every person is a living continuation of billions of years of accumulated and selected biological information, joined to generations of accumulated cultural information and a lifetime of personally acquired information.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-triad\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are information inherited.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are information becoming.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are information transmitted.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-continuing-copy\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We inherit it. We embody it. We process it. We change it. We transmit portions of it onward.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is not immortality of consciousness. It is continuity without supernaturalism.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Death ends the integrated information-processing life of the individual. But it does not erase all the information that constituted and was produced by that person. Biological information, ideas, knowledge, creations, relationships, memories and effects on other people can continue.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are not merely things that eventually leave information behind.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"is-continuing-final wp-block-paragraph\">We are already part of its continuation.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div id=\"explore\" class=\"wp-block-group is-explore\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"is-kicker wp-block-paragraph\">Follow the questions<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A different way to see yourself.<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"is-section-intro wp-block-paragraph\">Begin anywhere. Each question opens a path through the essays and conversations behind Informational Self.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-question\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"is-number wp-block-paragraph\">01<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-question-copy\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-question-heading\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is the informational self?<\/h3>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-question-body\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A living person remembers, learns, feels and acts. The informational perspective connects these capacities to the patterns and processes of the brain and body.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"is-read wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informationalself.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/you-are-made-of-living-information\/\">Start with a simple introduction \u2197<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-question\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"is-number wp-block-paragraph\">02<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-question-copy\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-question-heading\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why did we imagine a spirit?<\/h3>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-question-body\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thoughts and memories are real, yet we cannot hold them like objects. Explore how the language of information can clarify experiences long described as spiritual.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"is-read wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informationalself.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/14\/the-overlapping-nature-of-information-and-spirit\/\">Explore information and spirit \u2197<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-question\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"is-number wp-block-paragraph\">03<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-question-copy\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-question-heading\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What makes you, you?<\/h3>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-question-body\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your identity develops through memory, temperament, relationships and action. The living organism that sustains these processes is part of the self.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"is-read wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informationalself.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/02\/you-are-the-agent-of-course\/\">Read about identity and agency \u2197<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-question\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"is-number wp-block-paragraph\">04<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-question-copy\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-question-heading\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What continues beyond a life?<\/h3>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-question-body\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Genes, ideas, skills and influence can pass between people and generations. These forms of continuity can outlast the individual who carried them.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"is-read wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informationalself.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/11\/eternal-life\/\">Explore informational continuity \u2197<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-question\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"is-number wp-block-paragraph\">05<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-question-copy\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-question-heading\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where does meaning come from?<\/h3>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-question-body\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Love, curiosity, creativity, care\u2014and for many people, creating and raising children\u2014can give a life direction. Reproduction is a distinctive form of informational continuity: biological information crosses generations while language, knowledge, culture, habits and values can be transmitted, transformed and carried onward. It is one path to continuity, not an obligation and not the only path.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"is-read wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informationalself.com\/index.php\/children-reproduction-informational-continuity\/\">Children, reproduction &amp; informational continuity \u2197<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"is-read wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informationalself.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/08\/a-strong-alternative-to-spirituality\/\">Read the secular perspective \u2197<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-continuity\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-continuity-title\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"is-kicker wp-block-paragraph\">Life, continuity &amp; reproduction<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What passes through us can become something new.<\/h2>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-continuity-copy\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A child develops a new self through inherited information, learning and relationships. Parenting, teaching and creating are different ways of contributing to lives beyond our own.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"is-note wp-block-paragraph\">Informational continuity gives us a way to value that contribution without promising personal immortality or making parenthood an obligation.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"is-read wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informationalself.com\/index.php\/children-reproduction-informational-continuity\/\">Children, reproduction &amp; informational continuity \u2197<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div id=\"perspective\" class=\"wp-block-group is-perspective\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-perspective-title\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"is-kicker wp-block-paragraph\">About the project<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A naturalistic philosophy.<br>An open inquiry.<\/h2>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-perspective-copy\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Informational Self is a philosophical project by Daniel Lachance, exploring identity, meaning and continuity through the organization of living systems.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"is-note wp-block-paragraph\">The starting point is concrete: biological information is physically embodied. The broader interpretation of the self is a philosophical proposal, open to criticism and refinement.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"is-read wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informationalself.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/17\/you-are-precious-information-alive-in-time-the-informational-self-a-new-way-of-seeing\/\">Read the foundational essay \u2197<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-footer\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Informational Self \u00b7 A project by Daniel Lachance<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#top\">Back to top \u2191<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Informational Self ExploreThe project English Fran\u00e7ais Deutsch Espa\u00f1ol Italiano \u0939\u093f\u0928\u094d\u0926\u0940 A new way to understand yourself Not spirit.Not supernatural.Informational. 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