That which can distinguish one thing from another. An Entity.
The perception of Information is dependent on the resolution of the scoped perspective.
Cultural Definition
Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something. [from 14th c.] "I need some more information about this issue."
The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification. [from 14th c.] "For your information, I did this because I wanted to."
(law) A statement of criminal activity brought before a judge or magistrate; in the UK, used to inform a magistrate of an offence and request a warrant; in the US, an accusation brought before a judge without a grand jury indictment. [from 15th c.]
(obsolete) The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation. [14th-17th c.]
(now rare) The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training. [from 14th c.]
(now rare) The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation. [from 17th c.]
(Christianity) Divine inspiration. [from 15th c.]
(information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit. [from 20th c.]
A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber. [from 20th c.]
As contrasted with data, knowledge which is gathered as a result of processing data. [from 20th c.] "And as you can see in this slide, we then take the raw data and convert it into information."
(computing) […] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.
Information (shortened as info or info.) is that which informs, i.e. that from which knowledge and data can be derived (as data represents values attributed to parameters, and knowledge signifies understanding of real things or abstract concepts). As it regards data, the information's existence is not necessarily coupled to an observer (it exists beyond an event horizon, for example), while in the case of knowledge, information requires a cognitive observer. At its most fundamental, information is any propagation of cause and effect within a system. Information is conveyed either as the content of a message or through direct or indirect observation of some thing. That which is perceived can be construed as a message in its own right, and in that sense, information is always conveyed as the content of a message. Information can be encoded into various forms for transmission and interpretation. For example, information may be encoded into signs, and transmitted via signals.
Information is any type of pattern that influences the formation or transformation of other patterns. In this sense, there is no need for a conscious mind to perceive, much less appreciate, the pattern. Consider, for example, DNA. The sequence of nucleotides is a pattern that influences the formation and development of an organism without any need for a conscious mind.
Systems theory at times seems to refer to information in this sense, assuming information does not necessarily involve any conscious mind, and patterns circulating (due to feedback) in the system can be called information. In other words, it can be said that information in this sense is something potentially perceived as representation, though not created or presented for that purpose. For example, Gregory Bateson defines "information" as a "difference that makes a difference".[9]
Physical Information (Wikipedia)
That which can distinguish one thing from another.
Pattern Expression
All Entities are information.