The human body has trillions of cells. Surely there are enough copies of our DNA to recover its original form even if individual copies have extensive damage.
Yah, I don't think it's the loss of information, but a related concept: it's a decline in order.
We have a whole lot of redundancy and mechanisms to restore/repair redundancy. But even so, there's a march of entropy upwards; oxidation, genetic damage, cell death, tissue damage, neuron loss, etc.
We don't have repair mechanisms for everything the body knows how to build, and the repair mechanisms that we do have become less effective to use (and often less safe) as the body ages.
While the thermodynamic and the information theoretic concepts of entropy are related, it's not really applicable here. All the "real" information in the system is highly redundant (except perhaps neurological)-- we have billions of copies of the "information". The system's ability to restore itself to the order specified in the plan is lacking.
We have a whole lot of redundancy and mechanisms to restore/repair redundancy. But even so, there's a march of entropy upwards; oxidation, genetic damage, cell death, tissue damage, neuron loss, etc.
We don't have repair mechanisms for everything the body knows how to build, and the repair mechanisms that we do have become less effective to use (and often less safe) as the body ages.