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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Dear Pedro,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Shortly after the Vienna Summit, I was invited to submit an extended version of my conference paper for a publication in the Special Issue of the Information journal "Selected Papers from the ISIS Summit Vienna 2015". <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>It took me a lot of time to prepare the manuscript, but in the end, it was submitted to the journal. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Soon afterwards, I was informed that “your manuscript has been declined for publication in Information”. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>No comments, no further explanations – I have some previous experience with publishing selected conference papers in revered journals but that is my first encounter with such invited paper treatment style.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Never mind, I have published the article in the Research Gate. Because its subject is closely related to the discussion we held on the FIS forum in October 2015, I dare to provide a link to this RG publication (may be the issue is still interested for some FIS partakers).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/291352419_The_brain_is_processing_information_not_data_Does_anybody_knows_about_that">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/291352419_The_brain_is_processing_information_not_data_Does_anybody_knows_about_that</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Emanuel Diamant.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>