Information is often treated as:
- abstract data;
- signal transmission;
- symbolic encoding;
- or computational processing.
APS rejects these definitions when treated independently of biological organisation.
In APS, information becomes biologically meaningful only when differences participate in viability-oriented regulation.
A difference counts as informational not merely because it exists, but because it matters for the persistence of a living system.
Information therefore depends upon:
- evaluation;
- semiosis;
- biological organisation;
- and continuity-sensitive regulation.
This means APS distinguishes biological information from:
- raw physical signals;
- abstract syntax;
- statistical correlation;
- or computation alone.
Living systems organise information relative to conditions affecting viable persistence across time.
Information is therefore not foundational to life in APS.
It emerges within organised biological activity through which meaningful differences become integrated into persistence-maintaining regulation.
APS consequently treats information as:
meaningful difference organised within viability-oriented continuity.