I never said it was. But "programming" is not the same thing as the intellectual capital that gets loaded into the program, for the purpose of attaining a not-yet-existing end or purpose. "Intellectual capital" is not a direct observable; it is immaterial, intangible, and thus not itself subject to experimental test.
“They also take the supernatural into account every time they think, when they apply physical laws, when they reason, when they have recourse to logic, to mathematics. None of these things are “observables.””
Programming is math and logic distilled.