Definition of Information

Thanks for that! That answers a lot of my unspoken questions.

In another context, information, or knowledge, must have some mass or energy associated with it. How does a particle "know" if it is being measured or observed?

Nothing can be measured without adding to or subtracting from the whole.

Even a thermometer in the ocean affects the ocean.

IMHO, knowledge and information are distinct. Knowledge requires a knower. Information is may be available but without a perceiver yet.

As for information having mass, I don't think that is very clear. Does nonfiction weigh as much as fiction? If information has mass then mass should be a good indicator of truth. There exist infinite nontruths that can be about any thing so if untruth had noninfintesimal mass, everything would have already collapsed into a black hole from all the mass of untruths about any and everything.

What if my information is spoken in a foreign language--say what the Navajo code talkers used in WW2? The info given does not have to be understood, which was the goal of the code talkers.

True, lack of understanding does not mean lack of information, which is what I am referring to. "Static" is not currently understood, so it is labeled "noise".

The noise may contain all of the information of the universe, past., present and future but we have to move through the morass of time to understand pieces of it, and once we do, we will know it has been there the whole while.

The speed of sound was once thought impossible to exceed, likewise the speed of light now, but we will be released from our photon-prison.

The entire sum of our knowledge is merely accumulated drips from an ocean.

We do not invent or create anything, we simply discover that which is already present, yet we are so egotistical we claim a great victory over the darkness of ignorance.

So here we are, ants in a desert, thinking the universe is made of sand, with life spans so short we will never see the bigger picture.

I am very happy with my little sunbeam.

I believe our science is wrong about the concept of information.

Information is only needed for choice. And only bio-physics has choice.

And the fundamental purpose for information is “fit”. And with the proper “fit”, we get the proper function.

Dead matter interaction only has one fit. So information is not used, except on earth.

And this information has to be stored and passed on.

The filtering, assembly and storage of this bio information remains a great mystery.

Just like the one solution fit of dead matter remains a great mystery.

Information is like life, it’s only present here.

And it confuses us about all else.