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noun
The point at which a person's unique memories and individual personality traits are no longer present in a form that could be read or inferred by future technologies; the complete loss of the information that defines an individual.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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History
From information theory + -ic + death, based on clinical death. Coined by American cryptographer and cryonicist Ralph Merkle.
