Abstract
1 Whether information is physically existent or not is irrelevant to whether it is information. It is information if it is a representation of something else which is existent. So that something is primary. It being, somewhat obviously, presumed that this entails a valid representation, and a proper understanding of what is being repreented. That reveals that a component of physical existence is information. That is, what is received (or properly proven could have been receivable), eg light, is information. 2 What ultimately can constitute any given ‘it’ is left open, as this cannot be resolved generically. It is the physically existent state which defines any given physical reality. But this begs the question: existent state of what? Could what are regarded as properties actually be the substance, or it is effectively something inert, rather than the standard conception of something which is affected by something else? 3 It is critical that the existential sequence is differentiated from the existential representation of that. Something which many, including Einstein, have failed to do. This has resulted in the false concept of relativity and incorrect assertions about the importance of light, ie that e=mc2, etc. The physical properties of light, or more precisely what enables the creation and conveyance of the physical effect known as light, particularly its speed, are only relevant to the physically existent photon based representation of the existential sequence, not the sequence itself.
Paul Reed