>When you've decided what differences in the universe are worth caring about, what further insight is there to be gained from declaring brains to be information

>When you've decided what differences in the universe are worth caring about, what further insight is there to be gained from declaring brains to be information processors? Yes we pick our set of relevant differences. The useful thing about information processors is that after undergoing a physical transformation along its entropy gradient, the final state also picks out informative/semantically relevant states from the original space of distinctions. Information processors are informative, they have the ability to tell you something you didn't already know. That is, they manifest new informative states. The space of physical systems that have this property are vanishingly small. Most systems destroy information as it is pulled along its entropy gradient. Computers are perhaps the sole exception.