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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Information is physical <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>and</span></i> non-physical, simultaneously and
sequentially.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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Fis [mailto:fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>tozziarturo@libero.it<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> jeudi, 31 mai 2018 08:34<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> fis@listas.unizar.es; Emanuel
Diamant<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Fis] Is information
physical?</span></font><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dear
Emanuel, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hi!<br>
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: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a
href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2018/05/18/epic-snail-about-that-injectable-memory-study/#.Ww-V81UzYps">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2018/05/18/epic-snail-about-that-injectable-memory-study/#.Ww-V81UzYps</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>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".<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Il 31 maggio 2018 alle
5.55 Emanuel Diamant <emanl.245@gmail.com> ha scritto: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=ox-4f14289f56-msonormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dear FIS Colleagues, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=ox-4f14289f56-msonormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=ox-4f14289f56-msonormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>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 <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/291352419">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/291352419</a>
). <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=ox-4f14289f56-msonormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=ox-4f14289f56-msonormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>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”). <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=ox-4f14289f56-msonormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=ox-4f14289f56-msonormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>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 (<strong><b><font face="Times New Roman">Biologists
'transfer' a memory, <a href="https://medicalxpress.com/neuroscience-news/"><span
style='font-weight:normal'>Neuroscience </span></a></font></b></strong>, <strong><b><font
face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://medicalxpress.com/archive/14-05-2018/"><span
style='font-weight:normal'>May 14, 2018</span></a></font></b></strong>,
University of California, Los Angeles, <strong><b><font face="Times New Roman"><a
href="https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-05-memory-snails.html"><span
style='font-weight:normal'>https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-05-memory-snails.html</span></a></font></b></strong>
). <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=ox-4f14289f56-msonormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=ox-4f14289f56-msonormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=ox-4f14289f56-msonormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Best regards, Emanuel. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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