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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear Emanuel and Colleagues,</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">You do not need to apologize, and you
do not need to suppose that memory-synaptic themes are
undiscussable in this list either. Conversely, it looks an
intriguing matter that perhaps you can prepare yourself a little
bit longer and we can have a discussion session on it (you are
kindly invited to chair it, or to suggest a chair). I have often
insisted in the necessity to maintain a high standard of scholarly
discussion, particularly in this new time of tight cooperation
with IS4SI. We must count to 10, to 100, or better wait to the
next day in order to produce seasoned responses to themes or
opinions we strongly disagree. But those "fast and furious"
exchanges may also leave interesting points. In this case I gather
three at least: the qualitative limits of reason, the quantitative
limits of "acting" reason, and the informational approach to the
religious phenomenon. In due time, we can have ad hoc discussion
sessions, chaired ones, on that. Personally I find more productive
the chaired format, although having periods like the present one
of spontaneous free-wheeling is also OK.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">And now to your substantive request.
Looking at the board structure of IS4SI, I think that candidates
to be IS4SI (& FIS) Ambassadors --or delegates or
representatives-- could write to Tadashi Takenochi (in charge of
regional Chapters) or Xueshan Yan (Institutional Membership) and
of course to the current President (Marcin Schroeder) in order to
receive the OK and start organization work. Or for more
simplicity, I write here the address of the IS4SI Secretariat
(Annette Grathoff <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:annette.grathoff@is4si.org"><annette.grathoff@is4si.org></a>) for those
willing more specific information on IS4SI potentialities
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://is4si.org/">http://is4si.org/</a>); I can also help. Given the parties currently
in the list, I venture we could have at least half dozen new
Sections or Chapters. Why not to have them before the end of this
year? <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Best wishes</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">--Pedro<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">El 07/10/2019 a las 8:27, Emanuel
Diamant escribió:<br>
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<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"">As usually, I apologize for
interfering with the ongoing discussion on the future
chapters arrangement. The subject is important and great,
but (as usual) the discussion quickly degrades to
self-promoting advertisements and old ideas revitalization.
This is a dead-ended passageway.<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"">In the current (Oct 04, 2019)
<i>Science</i> issue, Vol. 366, pp. 83-89, a paper of the </span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"" lang="EN">UT Southwestern
team is published, where the scientists describe how they
have implanted memories into the birds brains to guide the
learning of their songs. The guys do not ask “what is
memory?” They even do not need an answer – they are busy
with medical implementations of their findings. It is
self-understood that answering such a question has to be our
duty. But again, we are not ready to keep up with this
challenge.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"" lang="EN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"" lang="EN">A similar case
happened a year ago – </span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">In the ENEURO journal,
published on May 14, 2018, an UCLA research group reported a
successful memory transfer from one marine snail to another.
I have immediately informed my FIS colleagues about this
achievement, but the news left them indifferent.<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"">(As usual, not to make my FIS
colleagues angry, I had not mentioned that the UCLA
experiment reliably confirms my assumption that Information
(and all its derivatives – thoughts, feelings, memories) are
material entities, that is, are strings of nucleotides
comprising the text of an information message. As such, they
can be processed, manipulated, and even relocated. Memories
are not more arrangements of adjustable synapses, as the
brain researchers traditionally view them. Memories are real
linguistic descriptions of observed structures that we
retain and recycle in our brains and our neuronal
arrangements. As said, </span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"" lang="EN">I did not </span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">mention the above details,
and my note passed unnoticed).<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"">Never mind, I am usual that
from the heights of “Data and Information” masterpiece
(Krassimir and the other FIS bessere Menschen) problems of
memory (information) transposition and rearrangement are
irrelevant and inappropriate. Never mind, I am usual that
such subjects are undiscussable in FIS community.<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"">So, what happens with the New
Chapters proposal? Really, a good and a timely idea. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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>
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