This misses the key property of such systems that make them remarkable. The computation involved begets new behavioral patterns that weren't enumerated by the i

This misses the key property of such systems that make them remarkable. The computation involved begets new behavioral patterns that weren't enumerated by the initial program statements. The behavior is not just a representation of the human knowledge imparted to the system, but an emergent dynamic that is unpredictable from an analysis of the initial rules. It is a common mistake to dismiss the computational part of a system as carrying no informative or meaningful content. Just bracketing `the computation` as transparent and explanatorily insignificant is to miss a large part of the substance of the system.