Dear Emanuel, Hi! 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:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2018/05/18/epic-snail-about-that-injectable-memory-study/#.Ww-V81UzYps 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". > Il 31 maggio 2018 alle 5.55 Emanuel Diamant <emanl....@gmail.com> ha scritto: > > > Dear FIS Colleagues, > > > > 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 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/291352419 ). > > > > 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”). > > > > 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 (Biologists 'transfer' a memory, Neuroscience > https://medicalxpress.com/neuroscience-news/ , May 14, 2018 > https://medicalxpress.com/archive/14-05-2018/ , University of California, Los > Angeles, https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-05-memory-snails.html > https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-05-memory-snails.html ). > > > > 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. > > > > > > Best regards, Emanuel. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Fis mailing list > Fis@listas.unizar.es > http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis > Arturo Tozzi AA Professor Physics, University North Texas Pediatrician ASL Na2Nord, Italy Comput Intell Lab, University Manitoba http://arturotozzi.webnode.it/
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