Re: [Fis] Is information physical?

2018-05-31 Thread tozziarturo
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

Re: [Fis] Is information physical?

2018-05-31 Thread Joseph Brenner
Dear All, Information is physical and non-physical, simultaneously and sequentially. Best regards, Joseph _ From: Fis [mailto:fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es] On Behalf Of tozziart...@libero.it Sent: jeudi, 31 mai 2018 08:34 To: fis@listas.unizar.es; Emanuel Diamant Subject: Re:

[Fis] Sound-induced Faraday waves in water droplets: The Effects of System Sizes

2018-05-31 Thread Sungchul Ji
Hi FISers, About 6 months ago, John Stuart Reid [1] of the Sonic Age Lab in Cumbria, England, published on-line a fascinating video strip showing the sound vibration-induced formation of standing waves in individual water droplets of 50 to 100 microns in size [1], almost comparable to living

Re: [Fis] Is information physical? A logical analysis

2018-05-31 Thread Stanley N Salthe
Mark -- What Shannon referred to as 'entropy' was 'variety'. 'Information' per se was achieved by way of a reduction or winnowing of this variety of possibilities, leaving 'information' to survive. STAN On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 10:24 PM, Burgin, Mark wrote: > Dear Loet, > Only one remark. There

Re: [Fis] Is information physical? A logical analysis

2018-05-31 Thread Joseph Brenner
Stan, Good, but things can also run in the opposite direction. How about variety (plus more energy) generating more variety, more possibilities and allowing new ‘information’ to emerge? Standard logical analysis is inadequate because it cannot handle this picture. Joseph _ From: