@Plinz are you using concepts of #Supervenience / #DownwardCausation in your work? They seem key to me.
The fact that this chain of mental model holds enables our prediction that a change in software will lead to a particular pattern of changes in the physical world. But it is not a "real" thing: it is a relationship between models. The observables are always the same.
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The heat generated by the computer, the business function served by the computer, are two examples of a reality that are slightly orthogonal to these. The boundaries are different. In interesting cases, the different models shouldn't so clearly map onto each other.
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They don't. What happens to the software if it upsets the user so much that the user pours his coffee over the hardware? Edge cases are very hard to predict!
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