02: INFORMATION
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2025 1:47 pm
Information is something that means something else. Something that it is not.
A mountain doesn't mean something it is not. A mountain doesn't even mean a mountain. It simply is a mountain. Water flowing over a cliff doesn't mean anything it is not. It doesn't even mean water flowing over a cliff. It simply is water flowing over a cliff.
DNA is information. DNA is two complimentary strands of nucleotides running along sugar phosphate backbones, and joined by hydrogen bonds. DNA means chains of amino acids and proteins.
An electrical current moving from the retina to a specific part of the brain is information. The current is a series of ions being released by a chain of cells. The electrical current means the photons that hit the retina.
Information processing is doing something with information.
A team of molecules uses the information in DNA to synthesize protein.
The information about the photons is used to choose a course of action.
Processing information unifies consciousness. When a conglomerate of particles acts together as a unit to process information, it is also conscious as a unit. Information, like consciousness, is non-physical. Therefore, consciousness responds to it in ways it cannot respond to the physical.
A mountain doesn't mean something it is not. A mountain doesn't even mean a mountain. It simply is a mountain. Water flowing over a cliff doesn't mean anything it is not. It doesn't even mean water flowing over a cliff. It simply is water flowing over a cliff.
DNA is information. DNA is two complimentary strands of nucleotides running along sugar phosphate backbones, and joined by hydrogen bonds. DNA means chains of amino acids and proteins.
An electrical current moving from the retina to a specific part of the brain is information. The current is a series of ions being released by a chain of cells. The electrical current means the photons that hit the retina.
Information processing is doing something with information.
A team of molecules uses the information in DNA to synthesize protein.
The information about the photons is used to choose a course of action.
Processing information unifies consciousness. When a conglomerate of particles acts together as a unit to process information, it is also conscious as a unit. Information, like consciousness, is non-physical. Therefore, consciousness responds to it in ways it cannot respond to the physical.