What is it that causes information to accumulate at higher levels of organization?

We have looked at information as something that “determines the probabilities of an event.” Examined closely, this introduces the idea that information is a form of energy, for energy causes events or “work.” It causes atoms to bond and molecules to form; it provides our food and our thoughts. In each case, however, energy must be in very particular and specific forms or “frequencies” to do its work. It must be expressed in a form that can be “understood” at every level. In this light, energy is information (in both kinetic and potential forms).

Growth is a phenomenon that depends on the linking of information, that is, the finding of congruent meaning in its joining. As growth occurs, new phenomena come into being as expressions of higher levels of organization.