Look at the code for a computer program. Certain values represent instructions and others represent data and others represent various references to data. Suppose you had a computer that was nearly as primitive as a Turing Machine. Could you convert all the program so that the static data were all replaced by instruction values and the programming instructions were replaced by value and reference data. I mean could this be virtually accomplished with something like a universal turing machine so none of the original data was preserved in its original forms? Is there a way to make the instruction code do the stuff that the parameters do and a way to make the parameters do the stuff the instructions do - for that program?
The point is that the distinction between instruction code and parameter code is not set in stone. Now the thing is that instruction code is a kind of enumeration (as are most of the references) but the value code in the instruction data may - in many cases - be something more. Is this off topic? Jim Bromer ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
