4.3 Information

I covered the five prerequisites to the existence of semantic information and the basis of its intimate relationship with 'design'. The position gets much more interwoven and complex as we look deeper. Firstly all such information is stored in matter, even just a thought in your mind implies storage in the neuro circuitry of your brain. So any man made object is a design specified by semantic information even if that information is never stored anywhere else but in the designers brain. For complex items we create drawings, sketches computer data etc, however note how the information is always separate from the object it specifies, its always one step removed. These observations lead us to the following conclusions:
1.Since information is stored in matter it is subject to the laws affecting matter
2.To originate or create a design one must first create the semantic information
3.Since semantic information always has a purpose it follows that every design also has a purpose, which is true by observation.

Now comes the real fun.. the thing is recursively related to its own prerequisites! That is at least two of the prerequisites for semantic information require a 'machine' ie to write and read it. But a machine is a design which must be specified by semantic information!

We conclude that semantic information cannot exist without prior semantic information! Which taken to its logical conclusion means if we observe any semantic information in the universe which is not the creation of man (notwithstanding the capabilities of other creatures) then its origin must be outside the physical universe.

A new principle now emerges.. I say without proof, that any entity capable of creating semantic information is limited by the capacity of its own information. In other words we may never create a computing machine with greater creativity than our own mind, which by the way we did not create.

Have a nice day..