“While the initial ‘hardware before the software’ injunction may be quite innocent, the addition of the ‘software as transmission’ one produces a description of the composition of reality which lands us in the methodological procedure of the Newtonian science being applied to humanities. That methodological procedure goes like this: since individuals in the former substratum exist a priori and individuals in the latter superstratum only exist a posteriori, in your observations and explanations you should follow the same linear sequence of emergence. That is: you should delineate former systems, equip them with their own properties and actions and from then on you may approach such clearly attributed actions as 'processes' - in the higher strata. Therefore, you cannot speak about processes without this sort of a solid attribution to individuals, their properties, and interactions, which have been legitimately observed and delineated before. Attribution of processes to processes will not fly. Note that this is no longer an assumption about the composition of reality; it becomes an epistemological procedure. In that sense we have switched from following reality, following the particular processes of interest, to following the acceptable procedure of science (which, let me remind you, is a social system...).”