This paper develops, in a programmatic way, one of the central theses of the DQ-12 framework: the possibility of treating information not only as an abstract descriptor of physical states, but as an active physical quantity capable of participating in the constitution of observable reality and, under certain conditions, of intervening in the production of mechanical work. The text articulates two postulates. The first affirms informational primacy: mass, charge, spin, and other ordinary quantities can be reinterpreted, in the DQ reading, as effective manifestations of deeper geometric-informational constraints. The second maintains that the organization, compression, erasure, or redistribution of information has energetic and mechanical consequences, which opens the possibility of understanding certain informational gradients as sources of effective drift and work. To situate this proposal in a physically recognizable context, the manuscript re-examines the problems of Maxwell, Szilárd, and Landauer, and then reformulates their scope from the perspective of DQ-12 without presenting these results as direct validation of the framework. The article's main contribution is to organize these intuitions into a more sober conceptual structure, specifying their scope, limitations, and avenues for falsification. Far from postulating a closed experimental conclusion, the work proposes a research program: if information is physically active, then there should exist open, geometrically biased, and thermodynamically controlled systems in which the transition between regions of different informational organization translates into measurable mechanical effects. Keywords: physical information; DQ-12 framework; informational ontology; mechanical work; information thermodynamics; entropic gradients; effective geometry. Areas themes Suggested : Theoretical Physics; Foundations of Physics; Information Theory in Physics; Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics; Quantum Foundations.
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