The Programmatical⇔Physical Universe

Programmatical⇔Physical


means


all programs have a physical form
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all physical entities have a programmatical nature.

All programs have a physical form: glyphs on paper, pixels on screen, magnetic orientations on hard drive, capacitances in memory—of computers or brains. New (unconventional) programs are made of biomolecular, photonic, quantum materials.

All physical entities have a programmatic nature: Everything can be reverse engineered into an expression of some (domain-specific) programming language.


The physical and the programmatical is a type of anti-platonist*, yin and yang dualism from Chinese philosophy: the non-linguistic and the linguistic aspects of reality.


* Abstractions exist in the constructive (computational) sense, not in the idealistic (philosophical) sense. The programmatical and the physical supervene on each other!