Pleasure and Joy

[Ryantology]

"The beauty of Bach's music is unfalsifiable and therefore useless."

The notion that what does not fit your little box of logical positivism is worthless demonstrates that your view of reality is very limited.

The notion that your interpretation of music defines the objective quality of that music demonstrates that your view of reality is inherently poisoned by your inability to tell apart its subjective and objective properties. ronedee had this same problem when he called me a liar for describing how his behaviors have defined my perception of his character. It's a flaw inherent (though admittedly, not exclusive) to anyone with religious beliefs.

I agree with all of this, except the last sentence. In the case of software, it does have an independence of the hardware running it. You could scrap all the code for Windows, recode it based purely on your idea of it, and still have Windows. Without that 3rd party observer/creator, that "software" has no existential reality (as opposed, maybe, to a tree).

If I may presume, I would think that his assertion is that software cannot exist in a functioning state independent of hardware. Perfect code may exist in virtually any conceivable form but it does nothing until some suitable piece of physical computing hardware executes it (with one conceivable exception, I guess).