(October 31, 2016 at 9:10 am)Sal Wrote:(October 30, 2016 at 3:47 pm)goombah111 Wrote: or does it?
No.
"Information" is just our abstraction of ordered stuff. Like DNA has "information" about how to assemble a being, but it can just as well be a star constellation and find it to signify something, even it's just us finding patterns in the chaos.
Exactly. I believe the OP is confused on this point. We process information with our brains, but information itself is just a vast set of characteristics of the natural world that we call that for simplicity's sake. It's there whether we observe it or not, so it's not predicated on the existence of any intelligence.
