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    Dear Jerry, Joseph and all FISers,<br>
    The title of my contribution is Logical Analysis but not Formal
    Logical Analysis. It means that I did not use any formal logic but
    thoroughly applied simple mundane logic, which is frequently used in
    everyday life.<br>
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       Sincerely,<br class="">
       Mark <br>
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    <br>
    <br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/18/2018 8:45 AM, Jerry LR Chandler
      wrote:<br>
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      Mark, List:
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      <div class="">I find your analysis to be curious from the
        perspective of scientific information theories - that is, the
        nature of scientific beliefs that are used to do science
        pragmatically - in physics, engr., chemistry, biology and
        medicine. The practice of scientific information uses
        well-established symbol systems, abstractions that relate
        meaning of experience to symbolic meaning in the mind.  Mental
        images (indices, icons, symbols, diagrams, etc,) are
        systematically manipulated within the particular framework of
        the scientific problem at hand, the focus of the inquiry.</div>
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      <div class="">The internal representation of the situation under
        investigation is only a private interpretation of the external
        objects. It is created by the various sense organs, for example
        the critical roles of the senses of touch, smell, hearing, etc
        are essential to the natural sciences.</div>
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      <div class="">So, who can define the meaning of the
        (mathematical?) varieties of “our model of the world”?  </div>
      <div class="">How will such a “model” (path?, category?,)  relate
        the static to the dynamic that we experience in our daily
        inquiries?</div>
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      <div class="">Let me skip directly to the categorizational logic:</div>
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          <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" class="">Finally, coming
            to the Existential Triad of the World, which comprises three
            worlds - the physical world, the mental world and the world
            of structures, we have seven options assuming that
            information exists:<br class="">
            - information is physical<br class="">
            - information is mental<br class="">
            - information is structural  <br class="">
            - information is both physical and mental  <br class="">
            - information is both physical and structural  <br class="">
            - information is both structural and mental  <br class="">
            - information is physical, structural and mental  <br
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      <div class="">Given your premises, I concur with your conclusions.
         But...</div>
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      <div class="">Philosophically, how does this logic differ from the
        Vienna Circle logic of “Unity of Science” of the 1930’s?</div>
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      <div class="">Can you expand the premises to include the
        processing of informational flows in the natural sciences?  </div>
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      <div class="">It seems to me that the meaning to be associated
        with this categorization is obscured by the usage of the term,
        structural.  </div>
      <div class="">For examples: </div>
      <div class="">Physical information can be considered structured.</div>
      <div class="">Mathematical equations are often considered as
        structures.</div>
      <div class="">Mental processes are dependent on anatomical
        structures.</div>
      <div class="">Is time structured?</div>
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      <div class="">Where does this categorization take account of the
        mathematical representations of molecular biology, genetics,
        biological dynamics, human diseases, all of which depend on the
        handedness of biochemical isomers and Penrose twistors?</div>
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      <div class="">Within this categorization, how are the processes of
        communication represented?</div>
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      <div class="">Or, is communication not a component of the purposes
        for developing the categorization?</div>
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      <div class="">My personal philosophy is that categorizations are
        always for a goal, purpose, objective, intent, etc.  Thus, many
        many philosophers have proposed categorical theories.</div>
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      <div class="">It appears that this proposed categorization of
        information could be improved by addressing the symbol systems
        used in the biological and other sciences. That is, addressing
        the forms of abstraction that relate representation to (in-)
        forms of physical structures.</div>
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      <div class="">Cheers</div>
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      <div class="">Jerry</div>
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            <div class="">On May 16, 2018, at 9:20 PM, Burgin, Mark <<a
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              <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" class="">    Dear
                FISers,<br class="">
                   It was an interesting discussion, in which many
                highly intelligent and creative individuals participated
                expressing different points of view. Many interesting
                ideas were suggested. As a conclusion to this
                discussion, I would like to suggest a logical analysis
                of the problem based on our intrinsic and often tacit
                assumptions.<br class="">
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                   To great extent, our possibility to answer the
                question “Is information physical? “ depends on our
                model of the world. Note that here physical means the
                nature of information and not its substance, or more
                exactly, the substance of its carrier, which can be
                physical, chemical biological or quantum. By the way,
                expression “quantum information” is only the way of
                expressing that the carrier of information belongs to
                the quantum level of nature. This is similar to the
                expressions “mixed numbers” or “decimal numbers”, which
                are only forms or number representations and not numbers
                themselves.<br class="">
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                  If we assume that there is only the physical world, we
                have, at first, to answer the question “Does information
                exist? “ All FISers assume that information exists.
                Otherwise, they would not participate in our
                discussions. However, some people think differently
                (cf., for example, Furner, J. (2004) Information studies
                without information).<br class="">
                <br class="">
                   Now assuming that information exists, we have only
                one option, namely, to admit that information is
                physical because only physical things exist.<br class="">
                   If we assume that there are two worlds - information
                is physical, we have three options assuming that
                information exists:<br class="">
                - information is physical<br class="">
                - information is mental<br class="">
                - information is both physical and mental  <br class="">
                <br class="">
                Finally, coming to the Existential Triad of the World,
                which comprises three worlds - the physical world, the
                mental world and the world of structures, we have seven
                options assuming that information exists:<br class="">
                - information is physical<br class="">
                - information is mental<br class="">
                - information is structural  <br class="">
                - information is both physical and mental  <br class="">
                - information is both physical and structural  <br
                  class="">
                - information is both structural and mental  <br
                  class="">
                - information is physical, structural and mental  <br
                  class="">
                  <br class="">
                 The solution suggested by the general theory of
                information tries to avoid unnecessary multiplication of
                essences suggesting that information (in a general
                sense) exists in all three worlds but … in the physical
                world, it is called <b class="">energy</b>, in the
                mental world, it is called <b class="">mental energy</b>,
                and in the world of structures, it is called <b
                  class="">information</b> (in the strict sense). This
                conclusion well correlates with the suggestion of Mark
                Johnson that information is both physical and not
                physical only the general theory of information makes
                this idea more exact and testable.<br class="">
                   In addition, being in the world of structures,
                information in the strict sense is represented in two
                other worlds by its representations and carriers. Note
                that any representation of information is its carrier
                but not each carrier of information is its
                representation. For instance, an envelope with a letter
                is a carrier of information in this letter but it is not
                its representation.<br class="">
                   Besides, it is possible to call all three faces of
                information by the name energy - physical energy, mental
                energy and structural energy.<br class="">
                   <br class="">
                   Finally, as many interesting ideas were suggested in
                this discussion, may be Krassimir will continue his
                excellent initiative combining the most interesting
                contributions into a paper with the title<br class="">
                                                                 
                                    <b class=""> Is information
                  physical?</b><br class="">
                   and publish it in his esteemed Journal.<br class="">
                   <br class="">
                   Sincerely,<br class="">
                   Mark Burgin<br class="">
                <br class="">
                <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/11/2018 3:20 AM, Karl
                  Javorszky wrote:<br class="">
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                  <div dir="auto" class="">Dear Arturo, 
                    <div dir="auto" class=""><br class="">
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                    </div>
                    <div dir="auto" class="">There were some reports in
                      clinical psychology, about 30 years ago, that
                      relate to the question whether a machine can
                      pretend to be a therapist. That was the time as
                      computers could newly be used in an interactive
                      fashion, and the Rogers techniques were a current
                      discovery.</div>
                    <div dir="auto" class="">(Rogers developed a
                      dialogue method where one does not address the
                      contents of what the patient says, but rather the
                      emotional aspects of the message, assumed to be at
                      work in the patient.)</div>
                    <div dir="auto" class=""><br class="">
                    </div>
                    <div dir="auto" class="">They then said, that in
                      some cases it was indistinguishable, whether a
                      human or a machine provides the answer to a
                      patient's elucidations. </div>
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                    </div>
                    <div dir="auto" class="">Progress since then has
                      surely made possible to create machines that are
                      indistinguishable in interaction to humans.
                      Indeed, what is called "expert systems ", are
                      widely used in many fields. If the interaction is
                      rational,  that is: formally equivalent to a
                      logical discussion modi Wittgenstein, the
                      difference in: "who arrived at this answer,
                      machinery or a human", becomes irrelevant. </div>
                    <div dir="auto" class=""><br class="">
                    </div>
                    <div dir="auto" class="">Artistry, intuition,
                      creativity are presently seen as not possible to
                      translate into Wittgenstein sentences. Maybe the
                      inner instincts are not yet well understood. But!:
                      there are some who are busily undermining the
                      current fundamentals of rational thinking. So
                      there is hope that we shall live to experience the
                      ultimate disillusionment,  namely that humans are
                      a combinatorial tautology. </div>
                    <div dir="auto" class=""><br class="">
                    </div>
                    <div dir="auto" class="">Accordingly, may I
                      respectfully express opposing views to what you
                      state: that machines and humans are of
                      incompatible builds. There are hints that as far
                      as rational capabilities go, the same principles
                      apply. There is a rest, you say, which is not of
                      this kind. The counter argument says that
                      irrational processes do not take place in
                      organisms, therefore what you refer to belongs to
                      the main process, maybe like waste belongs to the
                      organism's principle. This view draws a picture of
                      a functional biotope, in which the waste of one
                      kind of organism is raw material for a different
                      kind. </div>
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                    <div dir="auto" class="">Karl </div>
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                      schrieb am Do., 10. Mai 2018 15:24:<br class="">
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                        <p style="margin-top:0px" dir="ltr" class="">Dear
                          Bruno, <br class="">
                          You state: <br class="">
                          "IF indexical digital mechanism is correct in
                          the cognitive science,<br class="">
                          THEN “physical” has to be defined entirely in
                          arithmetical term, i.e. “physical” becomes a
                          mathematical notion.<br class="">
                          ...Indexical digital mechanism is the
                          hypothesis that there is a level of
                          description of the brain/body such that I
                          would survive, or “not feel any change” if my
                          brain/body is replaced by a digital machine
                          emulating the brain/body at that level of
                          description".</p>
                        <p dir="ltr" class="">The problem of your
                          account is the following:<br class="">
                          You say "IF" and "indexical digital mechanism
                          is the HYPOTHESIS".<br class="">
                          Therefore, you are talking of an HYPOTHESIS:
                          it is not empirically tested and it is not
                          empirically testable.  You are starting with a
                          sort of postulate: I, and other people, do not
                          agree with it.  The current neuroscience does
                          not state that our brain/body is (or can be
                          replaced by) a digital machine.<br class="">
                          In other words, your "IF" stands for something
                          that possibly does not exist in our real
                          world.  Here your entire building falls down. 
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                        giovedì, 10 maggio 2018, 02:46PM +02:00 da Bruno
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                                  <div class="">(This mail has been sent
                                    previously , but without success. I
                                    resend it, with minor changes).
                                    Problems due to different accounts.
                                    It was my first comment to Mark
                                    Burgin new thread “Is information
                                    physical?”.</div>
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                                  Dear Mark, Dear Colleagues,
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                                  <div class="">Apology for not
                                    answering the mails in the
                                    chronological orders, as my new
                                    computer classifies them in some
                                    mysterious way!</div>
                                  <div class="">This is my first post of
                                    the week. I might answer comment, if
                                    any, at the end of the week.</div>
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                                            class="">Dear Colleagues,</p>
                                          <p
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                                            class="">I would like to
                                            suggest the new topic for
                                            discussion</p>
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                                            Is information physical?<br
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                                      <div class="">That is an important
                                        topic indeed, very close to what
                                        I am working on. </div>
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                                      </div>
                                      <div class="">My result here is
                                        that </div>
                                      <div class=""><b class=""><u
                                            class=""><br class="">
                                          </u></b></div>
                                      <div class=""><b class=""><u
                                            class="">IF</u></b> indexical
                                        digital mechanism is correct in
                                        the cognitive science, </div>
                                      <div class=""><b class=""><u
                                            class=""><br class="">
                                          </u></b></div>
                                      <div class=""><b class=""><u
                                            class="">THEN</u></b>  “physical”
                                        has to be defined entirely in
                                        arithmetical term, i.e.
                                        “physical” becomes a
                                        mathematical notion.</div>
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                                      </div>
                                      <div class="">The proof is
                                        constructive. It shows exactly
                                        how to derive physics from
                                        Arithmetic (the reality, not the
                                        theory. I use “reality” instead
                                        of “model" (logician’s term,
                                        because physicists use “model"
                                        for “theory").</div>
                                      <div class=""><br class="">
                                      </div>
                                      <div class="">Indexical digital
                                        mechanism is the hypothesis that
                                        there is a level of description
                                        of the brain/body such that I
                                        would survive, or “not feel any
                                        change” if my brain/body is
                                        replaced by a digital machine
                                        emulating the brain/body at that
                                        level of description.</div>
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                                      </div>
                                      <div class="">Not only information
                                        is not physical, but matter,
                                        time, space, and all physical
                                        objects become part of the
                                        universal machine phenomenology.
                                        Physics is reduced to
                                        arithmetic, or, equivalently, to
                                        any Turing-complete machinery.
                                        Amazingly Arithmetic (even the
                                        tiny semi-computable part of
                                        arithmetic) is Turing complete
                                        (Turing Universal).</div>
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                                      <div class="">The basic idea is
                                        that:</div>
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                                      </div>
                                      <div class="">1) no universal
                                        machine can distinguish if she
                                        is executed by an arithmetical
                                        reality or by a physical
                                        reality. And,</div>
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                                      </div>
                                      <div class="">2) all universal
                                        machines are executed in
                                        arithmetic, and they are
                                        necessarily undetermined on the
                                        set of of all its continuations
                                        emulated in arithmetic. </div>
                                      <div class=""><br class="">
                                      </div>
                                      <div class="">That reduces physics
                                        to a statistics on all
                                        computations relative to my
                                        actual state, and see from some
                                        first person points of view
                                        (something I can describe more
                                        precisely in some future post
                                        perhaps).</div>
                                      <div class=""><br class="">
                                      </div>
                                      <div class="">Put in that way, the
                                        proof is not constructive, as,
                                        if we are machine, we cannot
                                        know which machine we are. But
                                        Gödel’s incompleteness can be
                                        used to recover this
                                        constructively for a simpler
                                        machine than us, like Peano
                                        arithmetic. This way of
                                        proceeding enforces the
                                        distinction between first and
                                        third person views (and six
                                        others!).</div>
                                      <div class=""><br class="">
                                      </div>
                                      <div class="">I have derived
                                        already many feature of quantum
                                        mechanics from this (including
                                        the possibility of quantum
                                        computer) a long time ago.  I
                                        was about sure this would refute
                                        Mechanism, until I learned about
                                        quantum mechanics, which
                                        verifies all the most startling
                                        predictions of Indexical
                                        Mechanism, unless we add the
                                        controversial wave collapse
                                        reduction principle.</div>
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                                      </div>
                                      <div class="">The curious
                                        “many-worlds” becomes the
                                        obvious (in arithmetic) many
                                        computations (up to some
                                        equivalence quotient). The weird
                                        indeterminacy becomes the
                                        simpler amoeba like duplication.
                                        The non-cloning of matter
                                        becomes obvious: as any piece of
                                        matter is the result of the
                                        first person indeterminacy (the
                                        first person view of the amoeba
                                        undergoing a duplication, …) on
                                        infinitely many computations.
                                        This entails also that neither
                                        matter appearance nor
                                        consciousness are Turing
                                        emulable per se, as the whole
                                        arithmetical reality—which is a
                                        highly non computable notion as
                                        we know since Gödel—plays a key
                                        role. Note this makes Digital
                                        Physics leaning to
                                        inconsistency, as it implies
                                        indexical computationalism which
                                        implies the negation of Digital
                                        Physics (unless my “body” is the
                                        entire physical universe, which
                                        I rather doubt).</div>
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                                            class="">My opinion is
                                            presented below:<br class="">
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                                            class=""><span class=""><span
                                                class="">   </span>Why
                                              some people erroneously
                                              think that information is
                                              physical</span></div>
                                          <div style="margin:0in 0in
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                                            class=""><span class="">   </span></div>
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                                            class=""><span class=""><span
                                                class="">   </span>The
                                              main reason to think that
                                              information is physical is
                                              the strong belief of many
                                              people, especially,
                                              scientists that there is
                                              only physical reality,
                                              which is studied by
                                              science. At the same time,
                                              people encounter something
                                              that they call
                                              information.</span></div>
                                          <div style="margin:0in 0in
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                                            class=""><span class=""><span
                                                class="">   </span>When
                                              people receive a letter,
                                              they comprehend that it is
                                              information because with
                                              the letter they receive
                                              information. The letter is
                                              physical, i.e., a physical
                                              object. As a result,
                                              people start thinking that
                                              information is physical.
                                              When people receive an
                                              e-mail, they comprehend
                                              that it is information
                                              because with the e-mail
                                              they receive information.
                                              The e-mail comes to the
                                              computer in the form of
                                              electromagnetic waves,
                                              which are physical. As a
                                              result, people start
                                              thinking even more that
                                              information is physical.</span></div>
                                          <div style="margin:0in 0in
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                                            class=""><span class=""><span
                                                class="">   </span>However,

                                              letters, electromagnetic
                                              waves and actually all
                                              physical objects are only
                                              carriers or containers of
                                              information.</span></div>
                                          <div style="margin:0in 0in
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                                            class=""><span class=""><span
                                                class="">   </span>To
                                              understand this better,
                                              let us consider a
                                              textbook. Is possible to
                                              say that this book is
                                              knowledge? Any reasonable
                                              person will tell that the
                                              textbook contains
                                              knowledge but is not
                                              knowledge itself. In the
                                              same way, the textbook
                                              contains information but
                                              is not information itself.
                                              The same is true for
                                              letters, e-mails,
                                              electromagnetic waves and
                                              other physical objects
                                              because all of them only
                                              contain information but
                                              are not information. For
                                              instance, as we know,
                                              different letters can
                                              contain the same
                                              information. Even if we
                                              make an identical copy of
                                              a letter or any other
                                              text, then the letter and
                                              its copy will be different
                                              physical objects (physical
                                              things) but they will
                                              contain the same
                                              information.</span></div>
                                          <div style="margin:0in 0in
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                                            class=""><span class=""><span
                                                class="">   </span>Information

                                              belongs to a different
                                              (non-physical) world of
                                              knowledge, data and
                                              similar essences. In spite
                                              of this, information can
                                              act on physical objects
                                              (physical bodies) and this
                                              action also misleads
                                              people who think that
                                              information is physical.</span></div>
                                        </div>
                                      </blockquote>
                                      <div class=""><br class="">
                                      </div>
                                      <div class="">OK. The reason is
                                        that we can hardly imagine how
                                        immaterial or non physical
                                        objects can alter the physical
                                        realm. It is the usual problem
                                        faced by dualist ontologies.
                                        With Indexical computationalism
                                        we recover many dualities, but
                                        they belong to the
                                        phenomenologies.</div>
                                      <div class=""><br class="">
                                      </div>
                                      <div class=""><br class="">
                                      </div>
                                      <br class="">
                                      <blockquote type="cite" class="">
                                        <div class="">
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                                            class=""><span class=""><span
                                                class="">   </span>One
                                              more misleading property
                                              of information is that
                                              people can measure it.
                                              This brings an erroneous
                                              assumption that it is
                                              possible to measure only
                                              physical essences.
                                              Naturally, this brings
                                              people to the erroneous
                                              conclusion that
                                              information is physical.
                                              However, measuring
                                              information is essentially
                                              different than measuring
                                              physical quantities, i.e.,
                                              weight. There are no
                                              “scales” that measure
                                              information. Only human
                                              intellect can do this.</span></div>
                                        </div>
                                      </blockquote>
                                      <div class=""><br class="">
                                      </div>
                                      <div class="">OK. I think all
                                        intellect can do that, not just
                                        he human one.</div>
                                      <div class=""><br class="">
                                      </div>
                                      <div class="">Now, the reason why
                                        people believe in the physical
                                        is always a form of the
                                        “knocking table” argument. They
                                        knocks on the table and say “you
                                        will not tell me that this table
                                        is unreal”.</div>
                                      <div class=""><br class="">
                                      </div>
                                      <div class="">I have got so many
                                        people giving me that argument,
                                        that I have made dreams in which
                                        I made that argument, or even
                                        where I was convinced by that
                                        argument … until I wake up.</div>
                                      <div class=""><br class="">
                                      </div>
                                      <div class="">When we do
                                        metaphysics with the scientific
                                        method, this “dream argument”
                                        illustrates that seeing,
                                        measuring, … cannot prove
                                        anything ontological. A
                                        subjective experience proves
                                        only the phenomenological
                                        existence of consciousness, and
                                        nothing more. It shows that
                                        although there are plenty of
                                        strong evidences for a material
                                        reality, there are no evidences
                                        (yet) for a primitive or primary
                                        matter (and that is why, I
                                        think, Aristotle assumes it
                                        quasi explicitly, against Plato,
                                        and plausibly against
                                        Pythagorus).</div>
                                      <div class=""><br class="">
                                      </div>
                                      <div class="">Mechanism forces a
                                        coming back to Plato, where the
                                        worlds of ideas is the world of
                                        programs, or information, or
                                        even just numbers, since very
                                        elementary arithmetic (PA
                                        without induction, + the
                                        predecessor axiom) is already
                                        Turing complete (it contains
                                        what I have named a Universal
                                        Dovetailer: a program which
                                        generates *and* executes all
                                        programs).</div>
                                      <div class=""><br class="">
                                      </div>
                                      <div class="">So I agree with you:
                                        information is not physical. I
                                        claim that if we assume
                                        Mechanism (Indexical
                                        computationalism) matter itself
                                        is also not *primarily*
                                        physical: it is all in the “head
                                        of the universal machine/number”
                                        (so to speak).</div>
                                      <div class=""><br class="">
                                      </div>
                                      <div class="">And this provides a
                                        test for primary matter: it is
                                        enough to find if there is a
                                        discrepancy between the physics
                                        that we infer from the
                                        observation, and the physics
                                        that we extract from “the head”
                                        of the machine. This took me
                                        more than 30 years of work, but
                                        the results obtained up to now
                                        is that there is no
                                        discrepancies. I have compared
                                        the quantum logic imposed by
                                        incompleteness (formally) on the
                                        semi-computable (partial
                                        recursive, sigma_1)
                                        propositions, with most quantum
                                        logics given by physicists, and
                                        it fits rather well.</div>
                                      <div class=""><br class="">
                                      </div>
                                      <div class="">Best regards,</div>
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                                      </div>
                                      <div class="">Bruno</div>
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