Shillong, May 14 -- Shillong-based IAS officer and medical doctor Joram Beda has released a new book that explores the fundamental question of information and its role in shaping reality, life and consciousness.

Titled Nature of Information: Shaping Reality, Life, and Consciousness, the book has been published by UK-based Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group. It presents an interdisciplinary study spanning physics, biology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, philosophy and consciousness studies.

The book argues that information may not only describe reality but could also function as a foundational organising principle, potentially forming the very structure of reality itself. It further examines how information influences ...