As Gregory Bateson noted, it is a world of pattern, of order, of resonances in which the individual mind is a subsystem of a larger order. Mind is intrinsic to the messages carried by the pathways within the larger system and intrinsic also in the pathways themselves. Key to this radical rebooting of our mindsets is the term information, which, in this scheme, refers to regulation and control and has nothing to do with meaning, ideas, or data. A raindrop that hits the ground behind you contains no information. The raindrop that hits you on the nose has information.
Information is a measure of effect.
Systems of control utilize information if and when they react to change to maintain continuity. These ideas laid the groundwork for my thinking about the current communications revolution. If Newtonian physics taught us that it is the parts that matter, we now inhabit a universe that interacts infinitely with itself, where importance lies in the patterns that connect the parts. Nobody knows, and you can't find out. Language becomes a commission, a dance, a play, a song.