You could think of software as being any element that is programmable—ie, even a physical plugboard can be thought of as software even though it’s not typically the format we store it on.
What I’m getting at is that it doesn’t matter if the software is expressed in electron arrangement or plugs or neurons, if it’s computable. I don’t see any trouble here distinguishing between connectome and neuron.
You could think of software as being any element that is programmable—ie, even a physical plugboard can be thought of as software even though it’s not typically the format we store it on.
You could think of a plugboard as hardware, too, hence there is no longer a clean hardware/software distinction
What I’m getting at is that it doesn’t matter if the software is expressed in electron arrangement or plugs or neurons, if it’s computable. I don’t see any trouble here distinguishing between connectome and neuron.
What I am saying is that ifnyiu can’t separate software from hardware, you are dealing with software in a reifiable sense.
Hardware is never computable, in the sense that simulated planes don’t fly.