Information is either material or immaterial

Information is either material, meaning processable by Beings in the analogue or the digital world i.e. processable by more than one Being (for biological Beings it is processable through their senses, while for non-biological Beings it is processable through their nature, meaning the design given to them by humans), or immaterial, meaning unprocessable by Beings (plural) in the analogue or the digital world i.e. it is processable by only one Being—it is a thought, a feeling or a wish, but also, significantly, the spoken word too (Verba volant: basically, the spoken word, a verbal discussion, is unprocessable by more than one Being because it has not materialised (for example, on paper) meaning that what was said has not been retained, it has departed and it cannot be proved that it ever existed. However, once speech materialises, e.g. on paper, or if it causes another, material, action (including repetition verbatim), then it becomes processable, in this new form, by more than one Being. The same is true of a gust of air: unless it is scientifically registered (e.g. in terms of strength or direction), it is not material information, i.e. it cannot be processed by more than one Being).

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