But doesn't software exist in time and space too? I won't agree software has no physical-world representation, as it takes charges on my SSD, and if I did not c

But doesn't software exist in time and space too? I won't agree software has no physical-world representation, as it takes charges on my SSD, and if I did not copy it even once, then destroying that SSD or messing up the charges on that SSD will destroy my software. So software is essentially a piece of information in the first place, an ordered chaos of 1s and 0s which makes sense to the RISC assembly. If I do copy it, then my SSD will contain the Original information and it will be it's Source, all the rest would only be forks and copies and versions of that Original information. I wouldn't agree as well that software is an Abstract Artifact, I'm always envisioning it as a big Abstract Factory, with conveyor belts hauling, machines processing and trains moving and unloading at the speed of light the Information, or by it's other name Data, our abstract butter and our abstract bread. So my answer to the original question – software is a very specific kind Information. Information for another Information to synthesise... Information. Software is an Informational Artifact. Software is an Artifact as much as common pressed plastic chair is an Artifact. There are millions of copies of that chair, and there are millions of copies of that software. If you can point to every copy of the chair, then why can't you point to every SSD/HDD/RAM containing a copy of software? This doesn't make sense to me. Abstract Artifact is too broad of a category to define software, as software's primary function — executing tasks or facilitating processes — extends beyond mere physical existence.