The first potential problem I see is that “information available” should be relative to an information-storage device like a human brain, whereas time in (my limited understanding of) physics is relative to a rock or other physical frame of reference. Those seem different.
If we try to remove that problem then we get a new one (which might exist anyway in a less acute form). When we take as our “given phenomenon” something large in spatial area, like ‘the Earth at exactly 4:40 am EST in this frame of reference,’ we find vastly more available information than we could have—even in principle, I would think—for many phenomena we would consider to take more time. So this definition doesn’t seem to match the word.
It doesn’t match a certain way of defining “information”. But some people are quite happy with notions of information that aren’t tied to a subject. You can reconcile the two by saying that objective information is potential subjective information.
The first potential problem I see is that “information available” should be relative to an information-storage device like a human brain, whereas time in (my limited understanding of) physics is relative to a rock or other physical frame of reference. Those seem different.
If we try to remove that problem then we get a new one (which might exist anyway in a less acute form). When we take as our “given phenomenon” something large in spatial area, like ‘the Earth at exactly 4:40 am EST in this frame of reference,’ we find vastly more available information than we could have—even in principle, I would think—for many phenomena we would consider to take more time. So this definition doesn’t seem to match the word.
It doesn’t match a certain way of defining “information”. But some people are quite happy with notions of information that aren’t tied to a subject. You can reconcile the two by saying that objective information is potential subjective information.