In the beginning it was information…
About 14 or 15 years ago, my wife and I were having breakfast on one of our days off, it must have been a Wednesday or Thursday, as we worked Friday through Tuesday at Dandenong Hospital in Melbourne. It must have been autumn, because looking out the window across from our table, we could see a medium-sized peach tree completely bare of leaves, looking utterly scrawny and damp from the drizzle at the time. I wondered aloud... had it dried up? My wife replied, wait until spring comes, and then you'll have your answer. Months passed, and during one of our regular breakfasts with my wife, we remembered the almost-withered tree. Looking out the window, our eyes lingered in admiration on the peach tree, because this time it looked very beautiful, laden with leaves and blossoms. What happened to our peach tree and what also happens to humanity, flora and fauna of this planet is that the information contained in our bodies triggered the beginning of an unstoppable action that culminates when the organisms of the bodies in question reach adulthood, also repeating in some cases all the seasons.
In order to think and then debate about the world we live in, the place we inhabit, and the surface of the earth we walk on, we should first meditate on where everything around us comes from, everything we know, and therefore everything we act or do in our lives. The only logical answer resulting from our meditation should be…Information.
We should consider some questions about information: What is it? How does it appear? What is its function? How is it transmitted? Where does it originate? Where does the information found in living organisms come from? etc. Information confronts us everywhere, in newspapers, magazines, tv, etc. providing us with daily knowledge. Information-processing systems are found everywhere, in all kinds of computers and even in automobiles. We should also note that the activities of all living organisms are controlled by compressed information programs. Because information is required for all life processes, we can say with certainty that …information is crucial in ;Information is extremely important for information theories and communication techniques, and is also fundamental in sciences such as cybernetics, linguistics, biology, history and theology.For this reason, scientists believe that information is the third fundamental element, along with matter and energy.
To understand, speak or write about the term “information”, it is necessary to have a vast amount of knowledge to navigate the vast array of possible avenues for examining all aspects of information