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This article offers a critical analysis of informational anthropology as developed by Marc Bellion and which applies information theory to the question of personal identity and the resurrection. Taking leads from an emergentist approach, Bellion’s proposal is that the human being be composed of an informational spirit and body. After death, the person’s continuity would be guaranteed by God’s memory, where the spirit and essential information subsist. The article hails the originality of the proposition, but underlines the theological and philosophical ambiguities, notably the central role attributed to God in the preservation of identity.