I think you're substituting some colloquial fuzzy/subjective definition of the word "information" here as "a conscious being knowing something." But in the con

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.