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Ask HN: Is Software Energy or Matter?
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Re: Ask HN: Is Software Energy or Matter?
#2Software is information. Information is created with energy, in a process that could involve matter, but it is fundamentally neither.
Re: Ask HN: Is Software Energy or Matter?
#3Software is information. Information is created with energy, in a process that could involve matter, but it is fundamentally neither.
And information (and software) could use matter or energy as medium for storage and transfer; e.g storing that python function as carbon traces on a piece of paper or transmitting it with photons through the fiber optic line.
For the lack of a better word, information (and software) is culture while matter and energy (carbon on paper, photons) are nature.
Re: Ask HN: Is Software Energy or Matter?
#4Software is information. Information is created with energy, in a process that could involve matter, but it is fundamentally neither.
What information does not require matter?
Re: Ask HN: Is Software Energy or Matter?
#5Software/knowledge/information is interpretation of either energy or matter. David Chalmers describes it well.