[Fis] Is information physical?

[tozziarturo at libero.it]

Dear Emanuel, 

Hi!
I'm sorry, but the UCLA finding does not put an end to any question.  Indeed, this paper about memory transfer has been highly criticized:  

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2018/05/18/epic-snail-about-that-injectable-memory-study/#.Ww-V81UzYps


The term "material" for the definition of information is less correct than "physical": indeed, "pyhsical" encompasses also the quantum fields, the solitons, the oscillations that, although not being properly "material", nevertheless are able to tranfer "information".




> Il 31 maggio 2018 alle 5.55 Emanuel Diamant <emanl.245 at gmail.com> ha scritto:
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>     Dear FIS Colleagues,
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>     For most of the time, I restrain myself from taking part in the FIS discussions – we speak different languages and adhere to different principles. My paper invited for publication in MDPI Informatics Special Issue: Selected Papers from the ISIS Summit Vienna 2015 has been declined for publication. (Never mind, it was published afterwards in the Research Gate repository https://www.researchgate.net/publication/291352419 ).
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>     In the concluding part of the paper I enumerate 8 topics in Neuroscience research that require immediate revision taking into consideration the new principles that follow from my definition of information. For example, that information is a material, palpable string of letters and linguistic signs, a piece of text, a textual description. That means that all derivatives of semantic information (thoughts, memories, feelings, and so on) are material entities (“Information as a thing” – once there was a fierce debate around this subject). Or, as Mark Burgin claims: ”Now assuming that information exists, we have only one option, namely, to admit that information is physical because only physical things exist”. (I do not use the term “physical”, I distinguish Physical and Semantic Information. In place of Burgin’s “physical” I prefer to use the term “material”).
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>     I would not remind you of our old controversies but recently UCLA researchers reported that they have transferred a memory from one marine snail to another (Biologists 'transfer' a memory, Neuroscience https://medicalxpress.com/neuroscience-news/ , May 14, 2018 https://medicalxpress.com/archive/14-05-2018/ , University of California, Los Angeles, https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-05-memory-snails.html https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-05-memory-snails.html ).
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>     I hope that the UCLA finding will put an end to the question “Is information material (physical, in Burgin’s inquiry)?” Yes, information is material. Other options do not exist.
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>     Best regards, Emanuel.
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Arturo Tozzi

AA Professor Physics, University North Texas

Pediatrician ASL Na2Nord, Italy

Comput Intell Lab, University Manitoba

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