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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">Dear Howard,</span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">You wrote:</span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">"... but I’m curious to hear your reason for not using information
as the term for all immaterial mysteries."</span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">Here is my answer:</span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">The Information definition as it is in the General
Information Theory (GIT)</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span lang="BG" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">We
perceive </span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">(reflect) <b>reality</b></span><span lang="BG" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%"> through our sensors, after which </span><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">reflections
(data) </span></b><span lang="BG" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">pass
through the sensory memory and enter the temporary memory of the brain. It is
here that our consciousness has already prepared a corresponding mental model</span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%"> loaded
from long term memory (Information Expectation,” IE”)</span><span lang="BG" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">, through which we will recognize the
data. Only after </span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">data is</span><span lang="BG" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%"> recognized and connected to </span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">the
information expectation</span><span lang="BG" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">, the data, together with the part of the </span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">IE </span><span lang="BG" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">with which </span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">it is</span><span lang="BG" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%"> connected (<b>meaning</b>!),
are perceived as information. That is, only at this stage</span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">, </span><span lang="BG" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">we will have </span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">mental model,
which is </span><span lang="BG" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">“information”.</span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%"> In
other words, <b>information is</b> <b>data with meaning</b>. The
information may be stored in the long term memory as a new mental model
(usually called “<b>knowledge</b>”).</span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">If data is equal to the IE no new mental model is created (it is already
“known” data).</span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span lang="BG" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">If
there is no mental model to </span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">be </span><span lang="BG" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">use</span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">d</span><span lang="BG" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%"> for IE, the consciousness tries
to create a new one (a new concept!) or remember the data as unrecognized, for
example, as is the case with UFOs.</span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">The same process may exist based on internal (self-) reflection. I.e.
some mental models may be compared to another and as result a new mental model
(<b>subjective information</b>, <b>a new idea</b>!) may be created and
stored in the long term (<b>semantic</b>, “knowledge”) memory of the brain.</span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">Finally, the immaterial is just a subjective mental model(s). From the
empty Universe through the scientific constructions, like the mathematical
“ideal” objects, up to the God, all are mental models in the </span><span lang="BG" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">consciousness</span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">, which may
be externalized using corresponding languages.</span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">The mental models are absolutely material, they are neurons’
configurations and when the brain dies they are destroyed. </span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">With respect,</span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">Krassimir</span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal">
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