I think about this from time to time. We don't often realize it, but software manifests in the physical world, at least in the configuration of the computer's memory hardware. Before SSDs it was all written to disks.
Even electrons have weight.
In some respects, computer hardware is like Aristotle's Prime Matter, and the software contains the Forms. Only together do they have substance.
MichaelJ
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