disembodied software (“brains”), providing information on what should be done and how
I wish to make a very small quibble. The software is not disembodied. It has some specific physical embodiment. The fact that does the work for you, is that it could have a different physical embodiment and cause the same act of production. In the version of Computer Science that I learned, I would have called that ‘implementation independent’. I’ve been down a rabit-hole and not found a citation that I like. I have found this partial rebuttal of the concept:
I wish to make a very small quibble. The software is not disembodied. It has some specific physical embodiment. The fact that does the work for you, is that it could have a different physical embodiment and cause the same act of production. In the version of Computer Science that I learned, I would have called that ‘implementation independent’. I’ve been down a rabit-hole and not found a citation that I like. I have found this partial rebuttal of the concept:
https://wiki.c2.com/?ImplementationIndependenceLimits