Human information systems are everywhere. We navigate multiple every day, even on the days we avoid healthcare, government, and similarly formalized systems.
Culture is shared information shortcuts.
Society is shared cross-cultural information to find overall balance.
Science is information built for understanding more deeply, broadly, and/or robustly than our raw physical senses support.
Libraries are a compilation of information.
We describe it all with language, which is information.
All of what we describe — including things that are more meaningful as numbers — is information.
We live in an information rich environment before we ever touched a computer, long before Turing existed.
Whatever nominalist presence you think something has, it’s richer in information.
Humanity is replete, absolutely bursting with, information in every conceivable way. It’s so pervasive, and so important, that it’s tempting to say that it’s what makes us “different”. It is, after all, why we make tools. We figured out something hard with a weight can knock on things, resulting in breaks (like a coconut); and or a hammer/peg combo that can even result in additions (like combining two boards). That information is implicit in the form of the striking objects.
What will really make you think hard is that animals and plants share information, too. Trees communicate with chemicals. Wolves have pack-shared jobs to be done. Birds sing mating calls and some have intricate mating dances. Ravens use tools.
We are not alone in leveraging information; we’ve just pushed it to an engineering complexity. Most of the time, we are borrowing from natural, living systems in our world. We’re trying to mimic what life has figured out.