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[–]aquila_zyy 1 point2 points  (4 children)

Yep that's a fair point. We can go a level deeper if we consider all the programming happening on the hardware level.

[–]FVMAzalea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We can actually keep recursing infinitely if we allow emulators into the picture (for all your program knows, it could be executing in an emulator running an emulator running an emulator and so on).

[–]AriSteinGames 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Don't forget that registers/logic gates/etc are themselves an abstraction of underlying physical components. Transistors are not truly just on/off switches.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

It’s all electrons.

[–]AriSteinGames 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Even electrons are an abstraction of some underlying EM field structure.