Things that aren't doing the thing

You know what? There is actually nothing to be called as "doing the thing". It is all layers all the way down. You keep peeling the layers, and there is nothing left.

When you do coding, you are only writing instructions for a computer about how to do something. So it is not actually doing something. When a computer runs your code, it is only telling some hardware to pass current through some circuits. Again it is not doing something. Current passing through circuits is not physically moving anything through the wires or metal. So again it is doing nothing.