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beings in the light of what Sheldrake terms ‘morphic resonance’. This similarity
notwithstanding, however, the transhuman dimension of ‘information’ is evident in the
ontological difference that obtains between its infinitely expanding virtuality and the
finite, embodied and singular human being.

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