More accurately that is just data, not information.Here is some information:
1011011000100110010100010011
Information is data that is organised, processed, and contextualised etc, or similarly considered.
Without much context it is just a string of 1s and 0s.
Any data or information in such form would be the same, even if copied, say, to another screenI can copy it. Except the copy will not be an exact copy (for reasons explained by quantum mechanics).
The data/information will only be different if there is sufficient degradation in the transmission such that the data is corrupted/different.
Okay, excepting that this, in isolation, is data not information.I can transmit it so it's received as is, over a reliable comms channel. I can store it. I can do all the things anyone can do with "digital information".
Other than being only 1s and 0s, out of context there is no pattern.So far it means a string of 1s and 0s with a fixed length. A pattern can be seen; it isn't a regular pattern, more kind of random . . .
Hence it is just data.How many different "data objects" might it be? A number? A machine instruction? A secret message?
I need to know what context is required, to squeeze any more meaning out of the string.
An observation.
Nothing more.
Ergo data.
The substrate is required to carry the data/information.Ergo meaning is context-dependent. Information by itself, isn't but it is physics-dependent in that a material substrate is required such that a pattern can be made.
But the information is not the substrate, it is the meaningful pattern within.
That makes it a concept, "meaningful pattern in a substrate", for example.
Any time you recognise something as being as conceptualised, you recognise information, do you not?
Ergo information is a concept.
Specific examples in reality are instances thereof.