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</head><body><p>Dear Emanuel, </p><p>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: </p><p><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></p><p><br></p><p>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".</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><br><blockquote type="cite">Il 31 maggio 2018 alle 5.55 Emanuel Diamant <emanl.245@gmail.com> ha scritto: <br> <br><div class="ox-4f14289f56-WordSection1"><p class="ox-4f14289f56-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Dear FIS Colleagues, </span></p><p class="ox-4f14289f56-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> </span></p><p class="ox-4f14289f56-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">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> ). </span></p><p class="ox-4f14289f56-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> </span></p><p class="ox-4f14289f56-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">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: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">”Now assuming that information exists, we have only one option, namely, to admit that information is physical because only physical things exist”. </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">(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”). </span></p><p class="ox-4f14289f56-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> </span></p><p class="ox-4f14289f56-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">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>Biologists 'transfer' a memory, <a href="https://medicalxpress.com/neuroscience-news/"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Neuroscience </span></a></strong>, <strong><a href="https://medicalxpress.com/archive/14-05-2018/"><span style="font-weight: normal;">May 14, 2018</span></a></strong>, University of California, Los Angeles, <strong><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></strong> ). </span></p><p class="ox-4f14289f56-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> </span></p><p class="ox-4f14289f56-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">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. </span></p><p class="ox-4f14289f56-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> </span></p><p class="ox-4f14289f56-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> </span></p><p class="ox-4f14289f56-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Best regards, Emanuel. </span></p><p class="ox-4f14289f56-MsoNormal"> </p></div></blockquote><br> <blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________ <br>Fis mailing list <br>Fis@listas.unizar.es <br>http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis <br></blockquote><br> <p><br></p><div class="io-ox-signature"><p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 115%; margin: 12.0pt 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', monospace;"><strong>Arturo Tozzi</strong></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 115%; margin: 12.0pt 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', monospace;">AA Professor Physics, University North Texas</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 115%; margin: 12.0pt 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', monospace;">Pediatrician ASL Na2Nord, Italy</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 115%; margin: 12.0pt 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', monospace;">Comput Intell Lab, University Manitoba</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 115%; margin: 12.0pt 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', monospace;"><a href="http://arturotozzi.webnode.it/" style="font-size: 14px; color: #05447e;">http://arturotozzi.webnode.it/</a><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></span><br></p></div></body></html>