In the Beginning was Information

The seven most important results are repeated once more: There can be no information without a code. Any code is the result of a free and deliberate convention. There can be no information without a sender. Any given chain of information points to a mental source. There can be no information without volition (will). There can be no information unless all five hierarchicallevels are involved: statistics, syntax, semantics, pragmatics,and apobetics. Information cannot originate in statistical processes.These seven theorems can also be formulated as impossibility theorems,as has been shown in paragraph 2.5 for practically all lawsof nature: It is impossible to set up, store, or transmit informationwithout using a code. It is impossible to have a code apart from a free anddeliberate convention. It is impossible that information can exist without havinghad a mental source. It is impossible for information to exist without havingbeen established voluntarily by a free will. It is impossible for information to exist without all fivehierarchical levels statistics, syntax, semantics, pragmatics,and apobetics. It is impossible that information can originate in statisticalprocesses.80