[Fis] Information: a metaphysical word

[tozziarturo at libero.it]

Dear FISers, 
The current debate about information has just a possible development, I think.
Everybody defines information in the way he prefers: subjective, biotic, bit, and so on. 
Therefore, every study that talks about "information" is meaningless.
In particular, subjective accounts of information are useless, because, in their framework, the information is not measurable, but just depends on the observer: if me, John and Mary see the same can, I think that the Coke is good, John thinks that he is thirsty and Mary that the aluminium is a malleable material. 
On the other side, I suggested in a previous post how the information entropy (such as Shannon's, or Bekenstein's, or Hawking's) may change according to the relativistic speed of the hypothetical observer.  
Therefore, I suggest to fully remove the term "information" from every scientific account.  The term "information" refers, in Popper's terms, to a not falsifiable theory, to pseudoscience: it is a metaphysical claim, like the concepts of Essence, Being, God and so on.  
Therefore, by now, the term "information" is definitely out of my scientific  vocabulary.  
  
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