Quote Originally Posted by DaBudhaStank
Lol what? It's not anything like that. Hardware exists, but software HAS matter because it usually comes on a CD, and there's empirical evidence that proves the existence of software.
Well... software can be stored in CDs, but its not actually software when its there. Its only a lot of holes in a plastic disk. Its not "alive". For being "alive" it must be running into a computer, where it is a lot of electric signals. A software in a CD is a software as much as a corpse is a person.

So, a software is just a lot of electric signals. What it is made of? Not even of electrons, because a wire with no electric current passing has exactly the same number of electrons of a wire with electric current passsing. Electric current is just the electrons movement. So, a software is made of the movement of electrons. A very abstract and immaterial thing... and yet it exists.

And the empirical evidence is not so obvious... for much people who does not know much about how a computer works, the software doesnt even exist as an independent entity. They buy their computers, usually with the (bleagh!) windows already installed in it, (and wonder whats the use of that CD that comes with the computer lol), and so think that the windows is part of the computer. It is, but not in a material way. They could even think that if they buy all the components of a computer, boards, hds, etc, and just assembly them, the computer will work. They would not know the need of something immaterial, the software, for the computer work properly.

The same goes for people. They have the physical body, but they are not only the physical body. There is also the immaterial part of a person, its "software", the emotions and thoughts, that are not made of physical matter.
BTW, the "spirits" are made of the same thing as the emotions and thoughts. They are not physical, and yet they are as real as thoughts and emotions.

All this things can be observed (and empirical evidence found) by anyone who take its time and learn skills like clairvoyance. But most people of science rejects to try this things exactly the same way as churchs people rejected to look through Galileos telescope, who wanted to show them the evidence that Earth was not the universes center. The ages change, but the things remains the same... todays science is playing the role of the medieval church... that was its greatest enemy in that ages... what all the scientists of that age would think if they knew it...
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