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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It’s not really the software affecting the hardware. It actually is just the hardware. The hardware has a lot of different switches, these are called memory. The processor then keeps switching these switches based on other switches. What running a program on a hardware comes down to is carefully setting up these switches so that when we let the processor do its automatic switch switching, it does what we intended.
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