Chapter 01 — Information • 01.01 — Material and immaterial information, Paragraph 17.1 (§01.01.17.01)

Chapter 01 — Information • 01.01 — Material and immaterial information • Paragraph 17.1 • §01.01.17.01

A subcategory of digital-born information is digital world–only information. This is information that is digital-born (a thought or idea that was materialised directly into digits) that nevertheless can exist only in the digital world. In other words, it cannot become tangible to humans other than through the medium of a computer (unlike a book or state records, which can be printed, or music that can be recorded onto a magnetic medium). This is the case, for example, for a domain name, a website or an object in an online virtual digital world (e.g. the metaverse). In both of the above cases, information (in essence, datasets) can be Things and Beings. The main distinction continues: Things, even if digital-born and digital-only, cannot process information. In the above example, a domain name, a website or an object in an online virtual digital world cannot process information. Only Beings, including artificial Beings (specifically, computer programs), can and will process information.

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