Primary/Secondary

I found this quotation in Hannah Higgins' study Fluxus Experience (2002):

As this is written, billions of dollars are being spent to create continent-wide information superhighways along which will flow every conceivable kind of information except one. The information being left out of these developments is, unfortunately, the most important kind: the information—termed ecological— that all human beings acquire from their environment by looking, listening, feeling, sniffing, and tasting—the information, in other words, that allows us to experience things for ourselves. . . . For understanding our place in the world, ecological information is thus primary, processed information secondary.

                            Edward S. Reed, The Necessity of Experience

Question: Why is this distinction between primary and secondary forms of information important? Is this distinction breaking down? Do you see this in the art and culture of 2016? Is there a reaction against processed information? Cyber-glut? What does all have to do with FLUXUS? You can read the entire first chapter free of charge at the University of California Press link (above). Click on the pdf on the right side.