Being as Communion
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Being as Communion

A Metaphysics of Information

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Being as Communion

A Metaphysics of Information

About this book

For 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 Being as Communion philosopher and mathematician William Dembski provides a non-technical overview of his work on information. Dembski attempts to make good on the promise of John Wheeler, Paul Davies, and others that information is poised to replace matter as the primary stuff of reality. With profound implications for theology and metaphysics, Being as Communion develops a relational ontology that is at once congenial to science and open to teleology in nature. All those interested in the intersections of theology, philosophy and science should read this book.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Preface
  8. 1 The Challenge of a Material World
  9. 2 Free Will: The Power of No
  10. 3 Information as Ruling Out Possibilities
  11. 4 Possible Worlds
  12. 5 Matrices of Possibility
  13. 6 Measuring Information
  14. 7 Information Theory
  15. 8 Intelligence vs. Nature?
  16. 9 Natural Teleological Laws
  17. 10 Getting Matter from Information
  18. 11 The Medium and the Message
  19. 12 Embodiment and Transposition
  20. 13 Energy
  21. 14 An Informationally Porous Universe
  22. 15 Determinism
  23. 16 Contingency and Chance
  24. 17 Search
  25. 18 Conservation of Information
  26. 19 Natural Selection
  27. 20 The Creation of Information
  28. 21 A World in Communion
  29. Index