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Humans can describe a thing as being real or unreal based on whether that thing is concrete or abstract. If information is concrete, it exists physically in a manner that can be observed or experienced directly through a person's senses, or through a mechanical intermediary to her senses. So we say information is concrete if exists in reality or is directly connected to something real, whereas if information is abstract, it exists in thought. A person cannot apprehend the specific organization of abstract information by sense, or by mechanical intermediary that delivers information to her senses. In other words, a person has no way to prove that abstract information exists. In my opinion, what's abstract exists in reality, but its concrete form is imperceptible, or else we perceive the concrete form as a concept or phenomenon that bears little or no resemblance to its physical constitution. |