Being as Communion: A Metaphysics of Information (Revised) 2024 first command book club introduction or afterword

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The earliest surviving work of nonfiction

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Being as Communion: A Metaphysics of Information (Revised) 2024 first command book club introduction or afterwordFor a thing to be real, it must be able to communicate with other things. If this is so, then the problem of being receives a straightforward resolution: to be is to be in communion. So the fundamental science, indeed the science that needs to underwrite all other sciences, is a theory of communication. Within such a theory of communication the proper object of study becomes not isolated particles but the information that passes between entities. In