 Observation: The interplay between the notion of sequences and multisets can be interpreted as a formalisation of the malleability of a piece of wax that pervades history of philosophy as the paradigm of information. Different sequences (forms) are representations of the same multiset (matter). The volume of the piece of wax (length of the string) is constant and thus a measure for the amount of information that can be represented in the wax (i.e.in the sequence of symbols). In terms of quantum physics the stability of the piece of wax seems to be an emergent property: the statistical instability of objects on an atomic level seem to even out when large quantities of them are manipulated. 