Where is the information stored?

[Esquilax]

Esq and Alex, I am continuously amazed by you guys' intelligence and ability to formulate ideas into sentences so eloquently. It's fucking astonishing, really.

In that sense "Information" is simply on the same footing as Energy and any other physical observable, wouldn't you agree?

Hmm. On the one hand, I see what you're saying. On the other, my increasingly powerful need to complicate things to avoid creating loopholes for theism insists that information is conceptual, and thus not on any level with physical things.

If I had to sum it up in a pithy way, I'd say that the physical observable world is one thing, and information is our description of that. But bear in mind that I'm only saying that so we don't have an "ah ha! Therefore god!" moment from Heywood or some other theist down the line; in a general sense, where I don't have to over-engineer every statement I make to avoid the gaze of hawkeyed, legalistic god of the gaps types, I agree with your conclusion there, Alex.