This seems like a non-standard use of the word "information". We would normally say that we have information about some arrangement of matter, not that the arrangement of matter was in itself information.Greta wrote:You accidentally contradicted yourself. Any "arrangement" of material, no matter how temporal, is information. The stuff is energy and however it is ordered (or disordered) is information. Just existing physically involves information - size, shape, density, temperature and so forth.Chriswl wrote: (Nested quote removed.)
It does not seem obvious to me that the early universe contained information. It contained matter and energy arranged in various ways ...
Imagine a traffic cop standing by the side of the road who measures the speed of a car at 85 mph. He has this information (he reads it so it's now in his memory), the speed gun has the information and is displaying it. But the car does not contain the information '85 mph' anywhere. It may be a fact that the car is moving at approximately this velocity, but if information is merely another word for facts then it would not be interesting philosophically (or from an engineering point of view). Also, information can be wrong, facts cannot be, so they can't be the same thing.