But we know now that atoms are not irreducible nuggets of matter. In fact, the deeper we drill into the subatomic realm, the less concrete and the more spooky things seem. We're used to thinking that information is made from matter and energy, a human invention that we employ in myriad ways to communicate with ourselves, Johnson notes. That although information is used to describe the universe, it is not commonly thought of as being part of the universe. But information may in fact be as basic a part of the universal fabric as mass and energy, perhaps more so.
Information seems subjective.
It all comes down to information. And so we Iguses make our tentative way around the world by gathering and processing information to create some life-sustaining order around us. The eventual appearance of Iguses may have been hardwired in the initial conditions of the big bang , the cosmic explosion that produced the matter and energy and information we fiddle around in. In this regard at least, we may have no existential choice in the matter. In other words, we may not be cosmological flukes.