It is not.<p>Potential (sure, “energy”) resolves to state (information) through constructive and destructive interference.<p>Information is the removal of uncertainty. Information is literally state resolve.<p>> An objective, dynamic and physically justified concept of information is elaborated starting from Shannon's concept of entropy<p>Shannon’s concept was demonstrated using the electron valence of an atom. The number of states are boundary conditions at a specific “energy” level. Exciting the atom raises the amplitude of the valence, changing the information potential (while it is excited.)<p>Clear cut example of POTENTIAL determining NUMBER OF POSSIBLE STATES which evaluates during a single for instance outcome as INFORMATION.<p>Information is not objective, information is always subjective (depending upon a point of perspective). A temp reading without time and place is just data, not information.<p>> and applied to information technology, artificial intelligence (consciousness) and thermodynamics.<p>Intelligence is not consciousness.<p>If we redefine entropy (I know, I know) as “the existential phenomena of potential distributing over negative potential” (making it a phenomenon in its own right, rather than a foot note of thermodynamics) this matter is cleared up for both thermodynamics and information theorem.<p>Entropy is the existential phenomena of potential distributing over the infinite surface area of negative potential (therefore P>=-1, think about it, there is no 0 or “closed system” anywhere in existential reality.)<p>Information is the removal of uncertainty. If it does not remove uncertainty it is not information.<p>Intelligence is the mitigation of uncertainty (if it does not mitigate uncertainty it is not intelligence.)<p>Consciousness is the inflection upon the potential of existential being. If a potential of existential being is not coherently inflected, there is no consciousness (regardless of intelligence.)