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The ontological standing of programs has been the subject of some debate in the relatively small amount of philosophical literature that concerns mainstream computer science. In particular, much of this literature would have it that programs have both a symbolic or abstract representation and a physical manifestation.
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Turner, R. (2018). The Ontology of Programs. In: Computational Artifacts. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55565-1_5
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