Hardware is just software on a higher plane of existence
I think this is not a very deep treatment of the problem. The interesting question is not whether software is different from hardware, but what kind of software our physical hardware is.
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But how can we answer that without considering the distinction between the two? It's definitely an interesting question, but the way you see it could be different from the way I do depending on our individual perceptions of hardware and software, as discussed in the article.
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Fundamentally, I think the two are one and the same. For example, at a high level, both can be modeled as a finite-state machine describing their control flow. And both can be thought of as computational devices pertaining to one or more functions. But beyond that it gets harder!
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