I'm not, I apologize, an electronic engineer, so I mainly only get to view the whole memristor discussion as one of competing narratives - and certainly the 'wh

I'm not, I apologize, an electronic engineer, so I mainly only get to view the whole memristor discussion as one of competing narratives - and certainly the 'whatever HP are pitching, it's not what was originally envisaged, and there's no certainty that's even a thing' narrative is certainly compelling. But there is a slight feel in this paper of an attempt to reconcile an unclear new concept with an orthodoxy, and that rubs me the wrong way. It reads a little like an alchemist dismissing the concept of phlogiston. Maybe you're both wrong? "The basic question of the “missing element” is whether we can we have a new passive element that cannot be made from the combination of existing passive elements. Water (W), Fire (F), Earth (E) and Air (A) are the four fundamental passive elements that a contemporary alchemical engineer is familiar with.... "