8.1 — Information as Persistent Rhythm

Information is not abstract.
It is rhythm held long enough to be shared.

A photon carries its phase.
A molecule carries its bonds.
A neuron carries its pulse.

Each is persistence that endures beyond the moment,
long enough to be received,
recognized,
and acted upon.

Information Defined

In RRM, information is persistence made transferable.
It is coherence that survives the gap between sender and receiver.

Without persistence, there is no message.
Without transfer, there is no meaning.

Information in Physics

- A photon’s polarization encodes direction.
- A particle’s spin encodes state.
- A wave’s frequency encodes timing.

These are not labels imposed afterward.
They are rhythms carried within the motion itself.

Information in Biology

- DNA stores rhythm as sequence.
- Cells pass chemical signals in resonant exchange.
- Nervous systems synchronize pulses into thought.

Life exists because rhythms preserve themselves long enough
to be read, copied, or altered.

Information Across Scales

Information scales like coherence:
- Atoms share rhythm through bonds.
- Organisms share rhythm through language.
- Societies share rhythm through culture.

Each is persistence translated into resonance,
patterns carried from one closure to the next.

Closing

Information is not code on top of matter.
It is matter itself,
when matter persists as rhythm that can be received.

The universe is not silent.
It remembers,
and in that memory,
it speaks.