Facts of Reality
We are things, living things, but things nonetheless. We are data and reasons and reasonings, but we lack the entire dataset, both our formulary data (the data that is us, what we're comprised of) and external data, what exists beyond our bounds, out for us to behold in reality common, the reality we share. We have bits & pieces of each, but we are missing the complete dataset, everything we are and everything we interact with. The goal is to have all relevant data needed to make a determination when interacting w/ others and even the self. Nonliving copies of our code (dataset, initial + combined w/ additional acquired data) could talk & navigate all our interactions so that each person may be properly respected in an exchange involving an absolute consent, which is consenting with an absolute and perfect understanding of all relevant data.
We are both a code and a thing, a living thing and living code, but still a thing, and still a code. We are comprised of matter and forces act on us. This is our base code, that which we are, all the matter and forces that work together to bring us about.