This is like saying computers don't have transistors because 99% of the time I interface with them in terms of programs.
Each version of the program individually can be described in terms of the workings of the architecture it is operating on; it does not matter that "the program" is "instantiated" on multiple substrates. The identification of one version of the program with another is 1/2
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not a fundamental feature of the universe or the program. The higher-level "pattern" just happens to be the same, even though the lower levels are different. This is a happy curiosity, not a fundamental feature of the universe; that way likes Platonism.
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*lies Platonism
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