A even shorter note

Since I'm packing for Austin tonight, I likely won't be able to elaborate my response to Nathanael's commentary. As a short point of clarification, however, I can poitn out that minds are immaterial in that they are information. Physical things can map information, but they are not themselves information*. Nevertheless, one need not depart from monism to allow that information is real and important.

*Well, perhaps physical things are also information or something, but that metaphysical quandry is irrelevant.