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<div id=":n6" class="a3s" style="overflow-x:hidden;overflow-y:hidden"><div dir="ltr">Joseph -- Commenting on:<div><br></div><div><span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div class="im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">
<div><font face="Arial"> We may agree that, if they are not identical, energy and information always accompany one another and may have emerged together from some as yet incompletely defined substrate. However, they may not be, do not have to be and for me are not at the same ontological level, and energy is primary being less abstract.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial"><br></font></div></div><div><font face="Arial">Is there not also a sense that information implies more than one entity (sender-receiver, object-interpreter)? That too would tend to align with the idea of energy being primary.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial">STAN</font></div><div><font face="Arial"></font><div class="yj6qo ajU" style="outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;outline-color:initial;padding-top:10px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:0px;width:22px">
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