> I don't believe you can extract the meaning of a program without understanding the computer that is supposed to run it (except perhaps by statistical analysis

> I don't believe you can extract the meaning of a program without understanding the computer that is supposed to run it (except perhaps by statistical analysis of its results when being run, which is generally how we are studying it today). This made me think of what forces of life are maybe engaging in within this universe: We can't know the structure of the machine running this simulation, but if we probe the results of the running simulation enough, we can understand everything of the system running it. In the Einstein sense, maybe that's how we know God? :)