But the software is stored on physical drives as ones and zeroes? What’s the difference compared to printing it on paper? It’s a different representation of it, on a different physical medium. But physical all the same.
What are the rules, here? What’s your personal definition of physical that I don’t know about?
The difference is that they are stored magneticly/electronicly on a drive, that means that it is just a change of property of a physical material that change, not any addition of material as ink or toner
Neither of these are physical entities, making the question pointless
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They are when you install them?
No, the only time software actually becomes physical is if you print the source code:
But the software is stored on physical drives as ones and zeroes? What’s the difference compared to printing it on paper? It’s a different representation of it, on a different physical medium. But physical all the same.
What are the rules, here? What’s your personal definition of physical that I don’t know about?
The difference is that they are stored magneticly/electronicly on a drive, that means that it is just a change of property of a physical material that change, not any addition of material as ink or toner
So there’s an addition of charge? Physical addition/change!
I just feel like you’re nitpicking this in absurdum. That’s my honest take. ✋
Well, isn’t it a point of philisophy to nitpick and explore conceptual differences?
Alright, I feel like we’ve done that now. 👍