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Material and immaterial are two particular terms, which are exposed to infinite misunderstandings, debates, opinions.
With the term material we mean what has a relationship with matter. By contrast, immaterial is that which has no relation to matter.

The definition of matter is therefore crucial. As we saw in the previous chapter, in this knowledge system all that exists, which we can directly or indirectly experience (observe, measure, interact with) is Information, In-Form-Action, Action with a Form, the Form of Action...

In its less complex aspects, especially in the physical domain of Reality, we give Information the name of Energy.

We know that matter and energy are equivalent, or rather that matter has an equivalent amount of energy, which we must use to produce matter, and which matter releases when it is destroyed. Matter as "frozen" Energy.

In particle physics, material particles (fermions: electrons, neutrinos, quarks) and energetic particles (bosons: gluons, W, Z, photons, higgs?) are identified.

So what is "materiality", where does it come from? From the exclusion principle that fermions manifest in occupying quantum states (and perhaps the same portion of space-time?)? Materiality is therefore intangibility?

In the chapter dedicated to Structures of Information we have identified and

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 Material and immaterial are two particular terms, often subject to '''infinite misunderstandings, debates, and opinions'''. By material, we mean anything that has a relationship with Matter. By contrast, immaterial refers to that which has no relation to Matter.
-'''The definition of Matter is therefore crucial.''' As we discussed in the previous chapter, within this System of Knowledge, everything that exists - everything we can directly or indirectly experience (observe, measure, interact with) - is considered Information. In-Form-Action: Action with a Form, the Form of Action.
+'''The definition of Matter is therefore crucial.''' As we discussed in the previous chapter, within this System of Knowledge, everything that exists—everything we can directly or indirectly experience (observe, measure, interact with)—is considered Information. In-Form-Action: Action with a Form, the Form of Action.
 In its less complex manifestations, particularly in the physical domain of Reality, we assign the term Energy to Information.
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 We know that matter and energy are equivalent, or rather that matter "is" an equivalent amount of energy, which we must use to produce matter, and which matter releases when it is destroyed. Matter as "frozen" Energy.
-We know that Matter and Energy are equivalent - or rather, that Matter "is" an equivalent quantity of Energy. It is the Energy we require to produce matter, and the energy matter releases when destroyed, or rather "destructured". Matter can thus be understood as "frozen" Energy. The quantity and quality of Information that organizes that Matter Structure.
+We know that Matter and Energy are equivalent—or rather, that Matter "is" an equivalent quantity of Energy. It is the Energy we require to produce matter, and the energy matter releases when destroyed, or rather "destructured". Matter can thus be understood as "frozen" Energy. The quantity and quality of Information that organizes that Matter Structure.
 In particle physics, we identify two primary types of particles: material particles (fermions such as electrons, neutrinos, and quarks) and "energetic" particles (force-carriers or bosons such as gluons, W and Z bosons, photons, and the Higgs boson).
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 '''So, what is "materiality"? Where does it originate?''' Does it arise from the "exclusion principle," which fermions show when occupying quantum states (and possibly even the same portion of Space-time)? Could it be that '''materiality is, in fact, intangibility?'''
-In the chapter on Structures of Information, we essentially identified '''three fundamental types of Structures: Waves, Vortices and Interactions'''. Waves represent the essence of Radiation (e.g., electromagnetic radiation) and the energetic Structures that constitute it. Vortices represent the essence of Matter and the material particles that form it. Additionally, there are Interactions that give rise to composite Particles - Particles increasingly complex and exotic, as observed in the Matter that constitutes us and our surroundings, or produced by cosmic rays, particle colliders, or other phenomena.
+In the chapter on Structures of Information, we essentially identified '''three fundamental types of Structures: Waves, Vortices and Interactions'''. Waves represent the essence of Radiation (e.g., electromagnetic radiation) and the energetic Structures that constitute it. Vortices represent the essence of Matter and the material particles that form it. Additionally, there are Interactions that give rise to composite Particles—Particles increasingly complex and exotic, as observed in the Matter that constitutes us and our surroundings, or produced by cosmic rays, particle colliders, or other phenomena.
-We have seen that the Structures and Interactions underlying Physical Reality can be traced back to two primary classes of Derived Entities, Processes, and Phenomena: Energy and Matter (two forms of more or less structured Information). Each can be subdivided into two subclasses - two faces of the same Reality - characterized by very different properties, even though they share a common foundation: organization of the Elementary Events and their correlation in the organization of the Elementary Field under the incessant Action of the Fundamental Force. These subclasses are identified as Dark (invisible) Structures and Ordinary (visible) Structures.
+We have seen that the Structures and Interactions underlying Physical Reality can be traced back to two primary classes of Derived Entities, Processes, and Phenomena: Energy and Matter (two forms of more or less structured Information). Each can be subdivided into two subclasses—two faces of the same Reality—characterized by very different properties, even though they share a common foundation: organization of the Elementary Events and their correlation in the organization of the Elementary Field under the incessant Action of the Fundamental Force. These subclasses are identified as Dark (invisible) Structures and Ordinary (visible) Structures.
 Drawing from a famous film saga, we could refer to '''a dark side''' (Dark Radiation: gravitational waves (GW) and dark matter halos, low density large extension non-particle matter (NPM)) '''and an ordinary side''' (Ordinary Radiation: electromagnetic waves (EMW) and Ordinary / hadronic Matter (PM), emitting and absorbing light / electromagnetic waves).
-Is it Mass that confers intangibility? Or perhaps the Vortex-like structure is responsible? It seems plausible. In that regard, shouldn't we consider light - consisting of electromagnetic waves or photons / bosons - as material? After all, light does not appear to be intangible. Moreover, due to the principle of complementarity, material particles (for example, electrons) can be represented as waves, and waves as particles. '''What a mess...'''
+Is it Mass that confers intangibility? Or perhaps the Vortex-like structure is responsible? It seems plausible. In that regard, shouldn't we consider light—consisting of electromagnetic waves or photons / bosons—as material? After all, light does not appear to be intangible. Moreover, due to the principle of complementarity, material particles (for example, electrons) can be represented as waves, and waves as particles. '''What a mess...'''
 '''A clear conceptual stance is needed''' to help us distinguish between what should be defined as material and what as immaterial.
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 Certainly, it is '''all Information that cannot be defined in terms of Energy and Matter''' as above. This refers to Physical Information of greater complexity, which does not fall within the realm of Cognitive Information (that is, the Information produced and exchanged by the Cognitive Systems of Living Beings and Automata).
-We refer, in particular, to '''the signals transmitted by radiation''' - those conveying Information about temperature, chemical composition, and the physical dynamics of the material entities that produced them. A similar principle applies to the particles of cosmic radiation.
+We refer, in particular, to '''the signals transmitted by radiation'''—those conveying Information about temperature, chemical composition, and the physical dynamics of the material entities that produced them. A similar principle applies to the particles of cosmic radiation.
-We also refer to the Information relating to '''the shape of astrophysical and cosmological objects''', which, among other aspects, encompasses all the physical Information that is created, exchanged, transformed, or destroyed by the Physical Phenomena composing Nature - irrespective of whether an observer (a Cognitive System) is present.
+We also refer to the Information relating to '''the shape of astrophysical and cosmological objects''', which, among other aspects, encompasses all the physical Information that is created, exchanged, transformed, or destroyed by the Physical Phenomena composing Nature—irrespective of whether an observer (a Cognitive System) is present.
 And again, '''all Physical Information that cannot be considered cognitive, that is, Information devoid of inherent meaning''', which spans Phenomena from the most elementary (e.g., a thermal gradient) to the most complex (e.g., an economic relationship within a planetary-scale human social system).

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 Drawing from a famous film saga, we could refer to '''a dark side''' (Dark Radiation: gravitational waves (GW) and dark matter halos, low density large extension non-particle matter (NPM)) '''and an ordinary side''' (Ordinary Radiation: electromagnetic waves (EMW) and Ordinary / hadronic Matter (PM), emitting and absorbing light / electromagnetic waves).
-Is it Mass that confers intangibility? Or perhaps the Vortex-like structure is responsible? It seems plausible. In that regard, shouldn’t we consider light - consisting of electromagnetic waves or photons / bosons - as material? After all, light does not appear to be intangible. Moreover, due to the principle of complementarity, material particles (for example, electrons) can be represented as waves, and waves as particles. '''What a mess...'''
+Is it Mass that confers intangibility? Or perhaps the Vortex-like structure is responsible? It seems plausible. In that regard, shouldn't we consider light - consisting of electromagnetic waves or photons / bosons - as material? After all, light does not appear to be intangible. Moreover, due to the principle of complementarity, material particles (for example, electrons) can be represented as waves, and waves as particles. '''What a mess...'''
 '''A clear conceptual stance is needed''' to help us distinguish between what should be defined as material and what as immaterial.

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 In the chapter on Structures of Information, we essentially identified '''three fundamental types of Structures: Waves, Vortices and Interactions'''. Waves represent the essence of Radiation (e.g., electromagnetic radiation) and the energetic Structures that constitute it. Vortices represent the essence of Matter and the material particles that form it. Additionally, there are Interactions that give rise to composite Particles - Particles increasingly complex and exotic, as observed in the Matter that constitutes us and our surroundings, or produced by cosmic rays, particle colliders, or other phenomena.
-We have seen how the structures and their interactions that make up physical reality can be traced back to two large classes of derived entities, processes, phenomena: Energy and Matter. Both divisible into two subclasses, two faces of the same Reality, characterized by very different Properties, even if both share a common nature (organization of the Elementary Events and their correlation in the organization of the Elementary Field under the incessant Action of the Fundamental Force): dark structures and visible structures.
+'''We define as material everything that is constituted by Physical Structures of Information, Waves, Vortices, and their Interactions'''. This includes Dark Radiation (GW) and Dark Matter (NPM), as well as light and all electromagnetic radiation and Particle Matter, along with all the interactions occurring between these forms of Energy and Matter. Furthermore, we consider Energy, both dark (Dark Energy) and directly observable forms (potential and expressed, kinetic, electric, magnetic, weak and strong nuclear energy, etc.) as material insofar as it is related to Matter.
-Drawing from a famous film saga, we could speak of '''a dark side''' (dark radiation: gravitational waves (GW) and dark matter halos, low density large extension non-particle matter (NPM)) '''and of a light side''' (electromagnetic waves (EMW) and ordinary/hadronic matter (PM), emitting and absorbing light / electromagnetic waves).
+'''What then can we consider immaterial in the physical domain of Reality?'''
-Is it Mass that confers intangibility? Or rather the vortex shape? Seems plausible.
+Certainly, it is '''all Information that cannot be defined in terms of Energy and Matter''' as above. This refers to Physical Information of greater complexity, which does not fall within the realm of Cognitive Information (that is, the Information produced and exchanged by the Cognitive Systems of Living Beings and Automata).
-So shouldn't we consider light, made up of electromagnetic waves or photons / bosons, as material? The light does not appear to be intangible.
-Due to the principle of complementarity, material particles (e.g. the electron) can be represented as waves, and waves as particles.
-'''What a mess...'''
-'''A clear stance is needed, conceptual,''' which helps us understand what to define as material and what as immaterial.
+We refer, in particular, to '''the signals transmitted by radiation''' - those conveying Information about temperature, chemical composition, and the physical dynamics of the material entities that produced them. A similar principle applies to the particles of cosmic radiation.
-'''We define as material everything that is formed by Physical Structures of Information, Waves, Vortices and their Interactions,''' and therefore dark radiation (GW) and dark matter (NPM), light and all electromagnetic radiation and particle matter, and all the interactions that take place between these forms of Energy and Matter. And again, we consider as material, related to Matter, Energy, both dark (Dark Energy) and directly observable (potential and expressed, kinetic, electric, magnetic, weak and strong nuclear energy).
+We also refer to the Information relating to '''the shape of astrophysical and cosmological objects''', which, among other aspects, encompasses all the physical Information that is created, exchanged, transformed, or destroyed by the Physical Phenomena composing Nature - irrespective of whether an observer (a Cognitive System) is present.
-'''What can we therefore consider immaterial in the physical domain of Reality?'''
+And again, '''all Physical Information that cannot be considered cognitive, that is, Information devoid of inherent meaning''', which spans Phenomena from the most elementary (e.g., a thermal gradient) to the most complex (e.g., an economic relationship within a planetary-scale human social system).
-We refer, in particular, to '''the signals that are transmitted by the radiation''' (temperature, chemical composition, physical dynamics of the physical entities that produced it). The same thing for the particles of cosmic radiation.
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-Information relating to '''the shape of astrophysical and cosmological objects''', etc. All the physical Information that is created, exchanged, transformed, destroyed in/by the Physical Phenomena that make up Nature, regardless of whether a Cognitive System (an observer) observes it.
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-'''All Physical Information that cannot be considered cognitive, which does not have a meaning''' (whatever it is, from the most elementary, eg a thermal gradient, to the most complex, eg an economic relationship in a planetary human social system).

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-Material and immaterial are two particular terms, which are exposed to '''infinite misunderstandings, debates, opinions'''.
+Material and immaterial are two particular terms, often subject to '''infinite misunderstandings, debates, and opinions'''. By material, we mean anything that has a relationship with Matter. By contrast, immaterial refers to that which has no relation to Matter.
-With the term material we mean what has a relationship with matter. By contrast, immaterial is that which has no relation to matter.
-'''The definition of matter is therefore crucial'''. As we saw in the previous chapter, in this system of knowledge all that exists, which we can directly or indirectly experience (observe, measure, interact with), is Information. In-Form-Action, Action with a Form, the Form of Action...
+'''The definition of Matter is therefore crucial.''' As we discussed in the previous chapter, within this System of Knowledge, everything that exists - everything we can directly or indirectly experience (observe, measure, interact with) - is considered Information. In-Form-Action: Action with a Form, the Form of Action.
-In its less complex aspects, especially in the physical domain of Reality, we give Information the name of Energy.
+In its less complex manifestations, particularly in the physical domain of Reality, we assign the term Energy to Information.
 We know that matter and energy are equivalent, or rather that matter "is" an equivalent amount of energy, which we must use to produce matter, and which matter releases when it is destroyed. Matter as "frozen" Energy.
-In particle physics, material particles (fermions: electrons, neutrinos, quarks) and energetic (force-carrying) particles (bosons: gluons, W, Z, photons, higgs?) are identified.
+We know that Matter and Energy are equivalent - or rather, that Matter "is" an equivalent quantity of Energy. It is the Energy we require to produce matter, and the energy matter releases when destroyed, or rather "destructured". Matter can thus be understood as "frozen" Energy. The quantity and quality of Information that organizes that Matter Structure.
 We have seen how the structures and their interactions that make up physical reality can be traced back to two large classes of derived entities, processes, phenomena: Energy and Matter. Both divisible into two subclasses, two faces of the same Reality, characterized by very different Properties, even if both share a common nature (organization of the Elementary Events and their correlation in the organization of the Elementary Field under the incessant Action of the Fundamental Force): dark structures and visible structures.

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-Material and immaterial are two particular terms, which are exposed to infinite misunderstandings, debates, opinions.
+Material and immaterial are two particular terms, which are exposed to '''infinite misunderstandings, debates, opinions'''.
 With the term material we mean what has a relationship with matter. By contrast, immaterial is that which has no relation to matter.
-The definition of matter is therefore crucial. As we saw in the previous chapter, in this knowledge system all that exists, which we can directly or indirectly experience (observe, measure, interact with) is Information, In-Form-Action, Action with a Form, the Form of Action...
+'''The definition of matter is therefore crucial'''. As we saw in the previous chapter, in this system of knowledge all that exists, which we can directly or indirectly experience (observe, measure, interact with), is Information. In-Form-Action, Action with a Form, the Form of Action...
 In its less complex aspects, especially in the physical domain of Reality, we give Information the name of Energy.
-We know that matter and energy are equivalent, or rather that matter has an equivalent amount of energy, which we must use to produce matter, and which matter releases when it is destroyed. Matter as "frozen" Energy.
+We know that matter and energy are equivalent, or rather that matter "is" an equivalent amount of energy, which we must use to produce matter, and which matter releases when it is destroyed. Matter as "frozen" Energy.
 In particle physics, material particles (fermions: electrons, neutrinos, quarks) and energetic (force-carrying) particles (bosons: gluons, W, Z, photons, higgs?) are identified.
-So what is "materiality", where does it come from? From the "exclusion principle" that fermions manifest in occupying quantum states (and perhaps the same portion of space-time?)? Materiality is therefore intangibility?
+'''So what is "materiality", where does it come from?''' From the "exclusion principle" that fermions manifest in occupying quantum states (and perhaps the same portion of space-time?)? '''Materiality is therefore intangibility?'''
-In the chapter dedicated to Information Structures we have essentially identified two basic types of structures: waves and vortices. Waves as the essence of radiation (i.e. e.m. radiation) and of the energetic particles that compose it. Vortexes as the essence of matter and of the material particles that compose it. And again the Interactions that originate the composite particles, gradually more complex and exotic that we observe in the matter that composes us and surrounds us, in cosmic rays, in colliders, etc.
+In the chapter dedicated to Structures of Information we have essentially identified '''two basic types of Structures: Waves and Vortices'''. Waves as the essence of Radiation (i.e. e.m. radiation) and of the energetic particles that compose it. Vortexes as the essence of Matter and of the material particles that compose it. And again the Interactions that originate the composite particles, gradually more complex and exotic, that we observe in the Matter that composes us and surrounds us, in cosmic rays, in colliders, etc.
-We have seen how the structures and their interactions that make up physical reality can be traced back to two large classes of derived entities, processes, phenomena: Energy and Matter. Both divisible into two subclasses, two faces of the same Reality, characterized by very different properties, even if both share a common nature (organization of the Elementary Events and their correlation in the organization of the Elementary Field under the incessant Action of the Fundamental Force): dark structures and visible structures.
+We have seen how the structures and their interactions that make up physical reality can be traced back to two large classes of derived entities, processes, phenomena: Energy and Matter. Both divisible into two subclasses, two faces of the same Reality, characterized by very different Properties, even if both share a common nature (organization of the Elementary Events and their correlation in the organization of the Elementary Field under the incessant Action of the Fundamental Force): dark structures and visible structures.
-Drawing from a famous film saga, we could speak of a dark side (dark radiation: gravitational waves (GW) and dark matter halos, low density large extension non-particle matter (NPM)) and of a light side (electromagnetic waves (EMW) and ordinary/hadronic matter (PM), emitting and absorbing light / electromagnetic waves).
+Drawing from a famous film saga, we could speak of '''a dark side''' (dark radiation: gravitational waves (GW) and dark matter halos, low density large extension non-particle matter (NPM)) '''and of a light side''' (electromagnetic waves (EMW) and ordinary/hadronic matter (PM), emitting and absorbing light / electromagnetic waves).
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-Is it mass that confers intangibility? Or rather the vortex shape? Seems plausible.
 So shouldn't we consider light, made up of electromagnetic waves or photons / bosons, as material? The light does not appear to be intangible.
 Due to the principle of complementarity, material particles (e.g. the electron) can be represented as waves, and waves as particles.
-What a mess...
+'''What a mess...'''
-A clear stance is needed, conceptual, which helps us understand what to define as material and what as immaterial.
+'''A clear stance is needed, conceptual,''' which helps us understand what to define as material and what as immaterial.
-We define as material everything that is formed by Physical Information Structures, waves, vortices and their interactions, and therefore dark radiation (GW) and dark matter (NPM), light and all electromagnetic radiation and particle matter, and all the interactions that take place between these forms of energy and matter. And again, we consider as material, related to matter, Energy, both dark (Dark Energy) and directly observable (potential and expressed, kinetic, electric, magnetic, weak and strong nuclear energy).
+'''We define as material everything that is formed by Physical Structures of Information, Waves, Vortices and their Interactions,''' and therefore dark radiation (GW) and dark matter (NPM), light and all electromagnetic radiation and particle matter, and all the interactions that take place between these forms of Energy and Matter. And again, we consider as material, related to Matter, Energy, both dark (Dark Energy) and directly observable (potential and expressed, kinetic, electric, magnetic, weak and strong nuclear energy).
-What can we therefore consider immaterial in the physical domain of Reality?
+'''What can we therefore consider immaterial in the physical domain of Reality?'''
-Certainly all the Information that we cannot define Energy and Matter, as defined above. Physical information of greater complexity, which cannot be considered Cognitive Information (the Information produced and exchanged by the cognitive systems of living beings and by automatons).
+Certainly '''all the Information that we cannot define Energy and Matter''', as defined above. Physical Information of greater complexity, which cannot be considered Cognitive Information (the Information produced and exchanged by the Cognitive Systems of Living Beings and by Automata).
-We refer, in particular, to the signals that are transmitted by the radiation (temperature, chemical composition, physical dynamics of the physical entities that produced it. The same thing for the particles of cosmic radiation.
+We refer, in particular, to '''the signals that are transmitted by the radiation''' (temperature, chemical composition, physical dynamics of the physical entities that produced it). The same thing for the particles of cosmic radiation.
-Information relating to the shape of astrophysical and cosmological objects, etc. All the physical Information that is created, exchanged, transformed, destroyed in/by the physical phenomena that make up Nature, regardless of whether a cognitive system (an observer) observes it.
+Information relating to '''the shape of astrophysical and cosmological objects''', etc. All the physical Information that is created, exchanged, transformed, destroyed in/by the Physical Phenomena that make up Nature, regardless of whether a Cognitive System (an observer) observes it.
-All physical information that cannot be considered cognitive, which does not have a meaning (whatever it is, from the most elementary, eg a thermal gradient, to the most complex, eg an economic relationship in a planetary human social system).
+'''All Physical Information that cannot be considered cognitive, which does not have a meaning''' (whatever it is, from the most elementary, eg a thermal gradient, to the most complex, eg an economic relationship in a planetary human social system).