We may look at a brain's behavior and attribute to it an exercise of judgment, in an anthropomorphic metaphorical way. But we are people, not brains. Only people can confer meaning. Of course if we intend to say that the brain processes meaningless information in a mindless way, as floating factory machine processes fish, then the metaphor works, but it is uninteresting. People have meaningful knowledge and we call that information.
People have human minds, and human minds can ascribe meaning to just about any pattern of occurence.
Unfortunately there is no widely agreed-upon definition of common sense meaning, so it is a matter of loose consensus. Obviously, there is no way the brain could process information in the common-sense definition if that definition is inadequately specified. The first definition of information, the scientific one, does not imply meaningfulness. The second definition of information, the common sense one, has no scientific definition. That's the information weasel.