Information Is the Meaning of Relation: A Relational Ontology for 21st Century

What if information isn't bits, data, or messages-but something far more fundamental?Information is the meaning of the relation.This single sentence upends everything we thought we knew about information, reality, and ourselves. In a world drowning in data yet starving for meaning, Piotr Domurad offers a bold relational ontology: relations come first. Things are stable patterns extracted from those relations. Information isn't stored or transmitted-it emerges when a participant interprets a relation and is changed by it.From entangled quantum particles to black hole evaporation (where the famous information paradox dissolves into temporary inaccessibility rather than loss), from DNA interpreted by living cells to conversations that co-create shared worlds, from markets reacting to news to love nurturing deep connection-this elegant framework reveals the same fractal pattern at every scale.You'll discover: - Why Shannon's theory captured transmission but missed meaning-and how the relational view completes it- How entanglement and the Page curve show information as accessible meaning, not a conserved substance- Why AI systems remain shallow participants today, and what deeper relational intelligence could look like- A practical ethics of stewardship: how to nurture relations, repair broken ones, and live meaningfully in a participatory universeClear, rigorous, and inviting, this book is for scientists seeking semantics, philosophers bridging ontology and physics, technologists rethinking intelligence, artists crafting meaning, and anyone who has ever felt that something essential gets lost in translation.The universe is not a collection of things. It is a living web of relations-and you are a co-creator of its meaning.Enter the relation. Extract what it means to you. Let new information arise.

Pagina's: 144, Paperback, Independently published