It is only a plate unless there is a mind that can decipher the etching on the plate as useful information. The plate did not “gain” or “lose” information - it is just an etched plate to anything without a mind to translate the two dimensional etchings into a three dimensional image of the creatures that sent the probe.
Similarly DNA is just a molecule absent ribosomes and tRNA’s that can decipher the molecule and translate it into a useful protein.
If the DNA for the enzymes that charged the tRNA’s with amino acids was changed, the entire “language” of what the DNA “meant” would change.
It is only a plate unless there is a mind that can decipher the etching on the plate as useful information. The plate did not “gain” or “lose” information - it is just an etched plate to anything without a mind to translate the two dimensional etchings into a three dimensional image of the creatures that sent the probe.Oh come on now, that is ridiculous. The dictionary contains information despite being unread. You may wish otherwise, but that is a fact. You conflate communication with information.