No it is not a physical law. The causality of the substrate has zero to do with the apparent causality in the software. 50 substrates. Steam, abacus, electronics... 50 different sets of natural causality. 1 software/model. Not a physical law.
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I don’t follow your arguments. The computational automaton of the software is fully realized in the causal structure of the substrate, via a series of successive functional descriptions, each abstracting the previous.
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The difference being that physical laws are substrate independent, whereas software is merely substrate agnostic. Software is an idea. Organized information. That organization must be maintained, or the information is lost forever.
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Are you working out loud? Are these tweets glimpses into what you're thinking about these days?
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From “On the origin of Objects” by Brian Cantwell Smith.pic.twitter.com/oQJtqmEs2a
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This is in contrast to what? Is this just saying that software is sort of math, but with "real stuff"?
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...unless there is a hardware problem that corrupts the software interpretation.
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I think Josha covered that when he included the IF. So IF you don't input that same specific (yet general) pattern of matter and energy, you will get a different output. The initial hardware state is the input.
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Concrete physical informations consist of matter and energy arranged according laws of physics. Is “physical” software the obligatory part of this “arrangement”?
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And the inputs/outputs are interpreted in a context.
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