We already used the term "information". This term is a fundamental term. It has no normal definition. MDT accepts the descriptive definition from common life and from science. The same situation is for the term "entity".
Warning: in connection with the term "information", something is considered as information after that "something" is processed somehow by a device which takes and processes that "something".
This somehow confuse situation is normal for any fundamental term. Just think, for instance, how one can explain what is "time". The only possibility to explain what is "time" is to use examples that already use the term "time". In fact it is impossible to define terms as "mass", "time", "space", "information" or "entity".
Let's introduce two new terms: "harmony" and "logic".
Once a model is given, it is possible to make simulations on the model, as it has already been explained. By simulation, it is necessary to change an element or a relation. The model goes into a temporary unstable situation because all the elements are connected between them. The model will evolve to a new stable situation. For an image model, the evolution to stability is based on harmony laws. For a symbolic model, the evolution to stability is based on logic. Thus, a stable model is a harmonic or logic model and, after a perturbation, the model will regain the stability based on the laws of harmony (image models) or logic (symbolic models). The evolution of any model toward stability (to become harmonic or logic) is also a basic hardware facility of the brain.
Because some situations from external reality can be associated, sometimes, with both types of models, there can be a corespondence between harmony and logic.
Thus, the implicit definitions of the terms "harmony" and "logic" are associated with the methods to regain the stability of an image model (harmony) or symbolic model (logic). An "implicit definition" means that we are able to recognize the effect of harmony or logic in an informational structure.
We are now in the situation to present the basic hardware function of any brain, based on the terms, which have already been defined.
The basic hardware function of any brain (human or animal) is to make models associated to external reality and to predict, by simulation, the possible evolutions of the model. Because the model is associated with external reality, it is possible to predict by simulation some probable evolutions of the external reality.
We already used the term "external reality" which is not defined yet. This fundamental term is considered as a source of information, which is not localized in the structure of models of the brain. I want to emphasize that the external reality is not a source of information, but is just considered so by any brain.