Marcia Bates (2006) borrows from Susantha Goonatilake (1991) in defining information. For my purposes, the important part of the definition is that of neural-cultural information. This refers to that information that has been generated or transmitted through our nervous systems — not limited to humans, but we have more enacted, or reproduced, information from humans. Not so much from gold fish, for example.
Neural-cultural information includes knowledge, beliefs, ideas, etc. We are able to share such information over time and space. Language, beliefs, values, knowledge of science, history, and more. We share technology and social norms. We share cat memes and pictures of cats in sinks.
And we share art and creativity. The neural-cultural building blocks that make up art education, and the creation of new artists, are ancient. They are also extremely human.
Bates, M.J. (2006) Fundamental forms of information. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(8).
Goonatilake, S. (1991). The evolution of information: Lineages in gene, culture and artefact. London: Pinter.
Art of Information 