Information is simply a word to describe or indicate various factual aspects which could be said to “possess” elucidating characteristics or revealing qualities, generally available for application to further overall knowledge or understanding of a “thing” when applied in a functional manner. Until they are organized, categorized, or otherwise assembled, either consciously or not, those aspects cannot necessarily be claimed to possess the functionality of information. Human minds analyze, organize, categorize, assemble, sort, compile and otherwise make these aspects or patterns thereof collectively available, which in turn renders them informational.
The word is often used to imply independently existing compilations of data points, but in reality the true implication is one of transmission of compiled points for the purposes of understanding or elucidation.
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