The Digital Essence: Metaphysics, Law, and the Ontological Identity of Information

Is your data a thing you own, a part of who you are, or a public utility?

Modern law treats digital information as a physical object, yet data lacks mass, occupies no space, and can exist in infinite places at once.

What are the benefits?

- Master the foundational metaphysics that dictate how data is governed.

- Distinguish between data as property, personhood, and common utility.

- Navigate the complex intersection of digital existence and legal reality.

- Understand the philosophical shift from physical assets to informational entities.

- Gain unparalleled depth with 210 curated concepts mapped across 21 chapter-specific appendices for comprehensive technical mastery.

What is the roadmap?

1 - Defining the Digital: The Quest for Data's True Nature

2 - The Information Turn: How Data Became a Fundamental Reality

3 - Bit and Being: Information Theory as Metaphysics

4 - The Ghost in the Machine: Dualism in Digital and Physical Realms

5 - Data as Property: The Commodity Framework of Information

6 - The Bundle of Rights: Dissecting Ownership in the Digital Age

7 - Digital Personhood: When Data Becomes the Self

8 - The Informational Self: Privacy as an Ontological Boundary

9 - Data as a Utility: The Infrastructure of Modern Existence

10 - The Commons of Knowledge: Information as a Shared Resource

11 - Abstraction and Implementation: The Layers of Digital Reality

12 - The Non-Rivalrous Nature of Data: Infinite Gains in a Finite World

13 - Intellectual Labor and Creation: Lockean Theory in the Virtual Space

14 - Semantic Information: Meaning vs. Raw Data

15 - Algorithmic Ontologies: How Code Defines Reality

16 - The Sovereignty of Information: Power Dynamics in Digital Spaces

17 - Virtual Objects: The Metaphysics of Digital Assets

18 - The Ethics of Informational Existence: Moral Status of Data Entities

19 - Digital Continuity: Persistence and Change in Data

20 - The Jurisprudence of the Immaterial: Legal Realism and Digital Truth

21 - The Future of Being: Post-Physicalism and the Datafied World

Who is the target reader?

Designed for legal theorists, philosophers, tech policy makers, and digital rights advocates.

How can you take action?

Stop viewing data as mere code and start seeing it as the fundamental fabric of our modern existence.

Redefine your understanding of reality in the digital age—read the definitive guide to data ontology.