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I know nothing, but here are my thoughts... What is information really? Does information exist without a conscious being to interpret it? Are the laws that g

I know nothing, but here are my thoughts... What is information really? Does information exist without a conscious being to interpret it? Are the laws that govern information simply laws that are created by conscious beings for the purpose of interpreting the information? Most laws that we are concerned with are derived from nature, through our senses and experience of cause and effect. Our senses allow us to perceive the changes in state of our surrounding environment. These changes in state is information. I guess the point I am finally making, is that the statement above concerning information is expected in lieu of our current focus, reliance, and addiction on information as a representation of reality. I am not sure what the difference is between the laws that govern matter and the laws that govern information. We're still working with information in either case. We have to take measurements, interpret the data, make predictions, and build systems to exploit the "laws" we've uncovered.

phaedrus 17y ago
I think you're substituting some colloquial fuzzy/subjective definition of the word "information" here as "a conscious being knowing something." But in the context of the linked article, we're talking about Information in the context of Information Theory. It is not subjective. The remarkable thing about Shannon's information theory is that he does formulate real laws of information on the same solid, objective footing as laws of physics. But then, I could have stopped reading at your first line: it sums up your entire post.