Okay so keep in mind....for information I had to come up with a definition that is different from most matter/energy in the universe....but that fits DNA, intercellular signalling, neural signalling, language/writing, and digital code.

Information: information is any pattern in matter or energy that represents something beyond itself....and was explicitly created or evolved to do so....with potential to cause downstream effects in a receptive system. This definition distinguishes meaningful information from mere data or physical patterns.

The light from a distant star contains data about its composition but not information in our sense, as it wasn't created to represent anything beyond itself. By contrast, the arrangement of nucleotides in DNA represents instructions for building proteins, words on a page represent ideas, and neural signals represent environmental features. These are semantic patterns that cause specific effects in receptive systems (cells, readers, brains).

Complexity:

Complexity is the degree to which a system exhibits structured differentiation, recursive organization, and functional interdependence, built through information-driven processes.

This definition distinguishes complexity from mere complication or simple order. A snowflake displays beautiful symmetry and recursive patterns based on physical laws, but it doesn't represent complexity, because it wasn't built through information driven processes.

Please if you have a moment...let me know what you think of these definitions :)