“The correlations that characterize the information we transmit through human forms of communication (such as English) or biological forms of communications (such as DNA) are there whether we know how to decode them or not. They are a characteristic of information-rich states, not of who is observing them. This tells us that when it comes to communication, the meaningful rides on the meaningless. Our ability to transmit meaningful messages builds on the prior existence of meaningless forms of physical order. These meaningless forms of order are what information truly is.”