A software is a very specific physical law. It says that if you arrange matter and energy in a very specific yet generalized way, they will behave in a very specific yet generalized way, regardless of where in the known universe that happens.
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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1. Assume electronics is the substrate. The causality of the substrate is the electromagnetism of the electronic switches. Say a memory location or register. The real physical causality of the electronics is deeply degenerately related to anything in the software.
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2. The causality of the substrate and the causality in the abstractions in the software have zero correlation an any physics sense that normally forms part of a scientific account.
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