Since information is not a property of the energy/matter it rides on, naturalistic theories for the origin of information will inevitably fail. Thus, for example, you will never account for the information in a book by studying the laws of chemistry and physics that affect ink and paper. Such laws can explain the presence of patterns of ink blots (for example, dripping from a quill pen at a certain height and splashing on paper below it), but they will utterly fail to explain a sentence in an independently existing pre-specified language.
Excellent reply. Which just goes to show that reductionistic material science falls woefully short of explaining the informational foundation of biological systems.
Ridiculous! You can not make a conclusion from a statement.
"Information can be stored in a matter/energy medium, but it is not the medium itself."
The storage is a configuration of energy. It's the configuration that has effect. Without any configuration of energy, there is nothing.
"Otherwise it would require a nuclear reaction (along the lines of E=mc^2) every time you read a book, to transfer the information from the ink on the page into light photons and on into your neurons!"
The whole process involves E=mc2. All elements of the process involve energy expendatures which are reductions in mass.
"Since information is not a property of the energy/matter it rides on, naturalistic theories for the origin of information will inevitably fail."
Information requires particular energy configurations, without which there is nothing.