I’ve been thinking a lot about software and how it affects hardware. How is it that software, that runs on code, or some computer language, can affect the physical properties of the computer? For example what has to happen for a phone to physically shut down after pressing the shutdown button on a touch screen? Or how can it be that by pressing a button in a software, a physical movement can be made on an object? Going deeper, how can it be that a button press, or a touch can affect the state of the transistors?
This reminds me of the problem of consciousness, where in a computer a software is like the mind and that cannot phisically connect to the body.
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> How is it that software, that runs on code, or some computer language, can affect the physical properties of the computer?
Software is also physical, it’s the pattern in which a ton of physical switches are set either on or off. It’s not an imaginary thing, even if it doesn’t seem as tangible than back when software was a [paper card with holes punched in it to make or break electrical connections](https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/punched-cards/2)
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