Ontological differences of information and data

Abstract

The terms «information» and «data» were introduced as purely engineering and utilitarian, though, it quickly started to be used in common speech, different scientific areas and appeared as a philosophical categories, due to it’s potential range of application. Wherein, the border of usage between these two words is erasing, they often mentioned as equals. In this article the history of appearance, fundamental attributes of these entities and formal approaches for understanding of the information’s and data’s quality nature are described and the following contradiction is shown. There is a thesis about ontological inequality, stating that the information is only in subjective existence, while data’s existence has an objective base. For the first half of the this thesis, there are described methods of approximated representation of components of consciousness, that, together with the way of demarcation of original terms, lead us to conclusion: information is fundament of subjective existence, the element, which all the subjective consists of. For the second part, there is a statement about connection between data and matter, and about the negation of data’s and material substance’s equality. Also, there are methods, spawned by the given view on subjective and objective nature