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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><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"'>Dear FIS colleagues, <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"'>Because our current discussion (dubbed “Scientific Communication”, announced by Pedro at Sept. 22, 2016) has deviated from its original purpose and shifted to our main and most relevant point of interest “What is information”, I dare to remind you about my personal views on the subject: Information is a complex notion. Like the notion of complex numbers in mathematics (which are composed of a real and imaginary parts), Information can be seen as composed of a real and an imaginary part – Physical information and Semantic Information. Physical information is a generalization of Shannon, Fisher, Kolmogorov, Chaitin, and as such informations. Semantic information still does not have its recognized definition. My attempts to spell out its destiny could be find on my site <a href="http://www.vidia-mant.info">http://www.vidia-mant.info</a> or at the Research Gate.<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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>