<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Jason,<div class="">I writing to remark on your use of percentages.</div><div class="">When I speak of 20% of S where S is some countable and finite collection C of things, then I can consider all the ways to choose 20 out of 100 parts of C.</div><div class="">But a conceptual domain such as Information is not a collection of things. 20% of it is meaningless.</div><div class="">You can ask: What is your best concise summary of your understanding of Informatics?</div><div class="">I suggest that you change your language here and make a request of that sort.</div><div class="">Best,</div><div class="">Lou <br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 27, 2025, at 11:49 AM, Paul Suni <<a href="mailto:paul.p.suni@gmail.com" class="">paul.p.suni@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Krassimir Markov,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font class="">You stated that “...information cannot exist outside of matter and energy, while the opposite is not true - matter and energy do not depend on information…” With all due respect, you commit a category mistake typical of serious scientists. While there is a scientific consensus that information is always accompanied by matter and energy, it is also true that matter and energy must always exist in some form, thereby carrying information. </font><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Formlessness is informative only outside of serious science, as a religious concept among spiritual practitioners.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> </span><span style="" class="">I challenge you to design a scientific experiment, where matter and energy demonstrably occur without form, information. Yours is a good example of the fallacy of the conflation of the epistemic and ontic domains of reality - an apparently universal mental condition infecting academics.</span></div><div class=""><span style="" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="" class="">Cheers,</span></div><div class=""><span style="" class="">Paul</span></div><div class=""><font class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage" class=""></span></font><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 27, 2025, at 12:51 AM, Krassimir Markov <<a href="mailto:itheaiss@gmail.com" class="">itheaiss@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">information cannot exist outside of matter and energy, while the opposite is not true - matter and energy do not depend on information.</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">Fis mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Fis@listas.unizar.es" class="">Fis@listas.unizar.es</a><br class=""><a href="http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis">http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis</a><br class="">----------<br class="">INFORMACI�N SOBRE PROTECCI�N DE DATOS DE CAR�CTER PERSONAL<br class=""><br class="">Ud. recibe este correo por pertenecer a una lista de correo gestionada por la Universidad de Zaragoza.<br class="">Puede encontrar toda la informaci�n sobre como tratamos sus datos en el siguiente enlace: <a href="https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas">https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas</a><br class="">Recuerde que si est� suscrito a una lista voluntaria Ud. puede darse de baja desde la propia aplicaci�n en el momento en que lo desee.<br class=""><a href="http://listas.unizar.es">http://listas.unizar.es</a><br class="">----------<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>