This article intends to review William Dembski's recent monograph entitledBeing as Communion: A Metaphysics of Information, in which he establishes an entire information-centric metaphysics. This viewpoint is compared with al-Ghazālī’s perspective, a Muslim philosophical theologian from the Medieval period. It is concluded that what Dembski defines as information, which for him is the ontological basis of the natural world, seems remarkably close to al-Ghazālī’s notion of God's will and omnipotence. This article is an explorative comparison of their metaphysical frameworks that are discussed in light of modern scientific developments, highlighting their differences and similarities.

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上帝、信息与世界：威廉·登布斯基和加扎利的形而上学

本文拟回顾威廉·登布斯基最近的专着，题为作为交流的存在：信息的形而上学，其中他建立了一个完整的以信息为中心的形而上学。这一观点与 al-Ghazālī 的观点相比较，al-Ghazālī 是一位中世纪时期的穆斯林哲学神学家。得出的结论是，登布斯基定义为信息的东西，对他来说是自然世界的本体论基础，似乎非常接近安扎里关于上帝的意志和全能的概念。本文是根据现代科学发展对它们的形而上学框架进行探索性比较，突出它们的异同。