[naasking]

> The “information” is fabricated in this regard, pulled up out of the ether, and by decree christened as “meaning”.

No, not fabricated, but inferred from a structured corpus of information generated by other semantic processes (humans).

> Numbers carry no meaning, nor do the magnitudes arbitrarily assigned to meaning.

Prove it.

> The map is not the territory.

Except if the territory is information, in which case the map is literally the territory. Knowledge is information, is it not?