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You don't need to communicate your programs to anyone or anything for them to exist. If I write a program on a piece of paper, and don't give this piece of pape
by catnaroek 9y ago
You don't need to communicate your programs to anyone or anything for them to exist. If I write a program on a piece of paper, and don't give this piece of paper to anyone else, a program still exists. (I might have to transcribe it into a computer if I don't want to run it manually myself, though.)
- fao_ 9y agoAnd written language isn't a form of communication? (In your example, from yourself to a future form of yourself, or from yourself to the computer).
- catnaroek 9y agoWell, if you take the view that persisting any representation of information from one spacetime event [0] to another is “communication”, then pretty much any physical process is “communication”. But then the term kinda starts to lose its meaning. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_(relativity) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_(relativity)