You'll never understand any of this if you don't understand the very definition of "information". A cursory look at the first chapter of any modern text on information theory will provide you with the beginning of a correct definition. Try the Li and Vitanyi book -- its the de facto gold standard. Hell, I might just copy the definition here, with a page number, so that you know I'm not making it up.
Hint: When you are dead and your body decaying, it will contain more information than when you were alive. If you don't understand why this is true, then you don't even understand enough to begin the discussion. It is fundamental to the definition of information. Look up the definition of "Kolmogorov complexity" on Google. You may not grok it, but trying to is the first step to having a clue.