What do you think information actually is?

It seems to me like information is the most fundamental building block of reality, of consciousness, of anything at all. But what is it? How is it even possible to learn anything? If you know literally nothing, no matter what happens, you will never know what you are experiencing. It has to somehow be known what you are seeing, hearing, feeling in order to learn. But how did the first knowledge come about? How did the first piece of information come about? If we know nothing information could never be learned, but if we need to know something in order to learn and information could never be learned, then something must require no knowledge in order to learn. What is that?<br><br>Edit: Not to be too picky, but I'm looking for a method on how the first piece of information comes about, how it is learned. Not what information is. So far no one has responded to this post with such a method or theory.