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information vs. matter/energy

Rick,
I just read that:
MIT mathematician Norbert Weiner, the father of the science of cybernetics and a peer of Claude Shannon said, "Information is information, neither matter nor energy."

The outline presented in Lexical Semantics has major categories of Matter, Energy, Matter And Energy, and Time, which represent the values of a matrix of two variables, +/- matter on the one hand vs. +/- energy on the other, and where time fills the [- matter, - energy] position.  

If the idea of information as a separate category were incorporated into the outline of your interlingua, how would it affect that outline?  Does the outline already include an implicit informational category (a combination of other categories perhaps, or merely called something else)?  Would it just move some of the classifiers to a new information category, or would new classifier meanings have to be created in order to account for the new information category?  Would each of the current major categories have to be split into two subcategories, one for [+ information] and one for [- information]?  

If a new outline were created, explicitly taking information into account as a separate category, would this necessarily have any effect on the interlingua itself?  For that matter, does the current outline have any reflection in the language as it is now?

stevo