Hardware engineering works with matter which is not subjective and so it can't b...

jacques_chester · on Sept 13, 2019

You can turn any software into an equivalent piece of hardware, which meets the non-subjective matter test you're proposing.

Similarly, I can convert any hardware into a software model of it, which makes it into pure imagination.

GoblinSlayer · on Sept 13, 2019

You can't convert hardware into software model, the software model is necessarily an imperfect idealization, created deductively even, which thus doesn't necessarily work IRL, because fundamentally it's imagination.