What is the law of computer science: "Information cannot exist separately from its carrier"?

Question

After reading the Laws of Informatics and Programming page and not finding this law, can anyone tell me what this law is?

The point of the law is that the carrier is information. In other words, you cannot share information on an HDD with the molecular structure of a hard disk. You cannot separate the information provided by the statue from the shape and physical structure of the statue. You cannot separate the information in your head from the physical structure of the neurons in your brain where this information is stored.

I read the law many years ago, but I can’t track it on the Internet. Could you help me?

Answer 1

The fact is that you cannot store information if it is not encoded. For it to be encoded, you need an encoding scheme and media to save the encoding result. Of course, you can encode and send the result to / dev / null, but then you no longer have the result.

Answer 2

This "law" seems poorly thought out at best - you can really share information from your media. Consider a hard drive and a flash drive formatted in different file systems, but both of them contain exactly the same jpeg file. Both from the same original, a photograph of Mona Lisa, but have been oversampled and in no way identical on a binary level. What do they have in common?

In accordance with this law, absolutely nothing.

You probably can't find it, because I expect that this is not a real law - someone might have thought about it and thought it was smart and wrote it somewhere that you may have read later.

If I am wrong and just made my ass, please correct me.

Edit: also
"you cannot share information on a hard disk with the molecular structure of a hard disk"

Then how to accurately copy data from one hard drive to another without physically moving the molecular structure? Of course, the act of simply reading data performs this impossible task. What you may have been looking for is that information cannot exist without some kind of medium.