Computation is more than silicon chips, more than digital circuits, or the Von Neumann architecture. It’s not inhibited by the code/data distinction. It’s a gen

Computation is more than silicon chips, more than digital circuits, or the Von Neumann architecture. It’s not inhibited by the code/data distinction. It’s a general model of information processing encompassing any conceivable physical implementation. Fundamentally information is a state description of the attributes, interactions and geometrical relationships in physical systems. Regions of magnetism on a tape, holes punched in a card, patterns of electrical charge in transistors, the distribution of electro chemicals in nerve cells and synapses. It’s all just information. All physical processes are processes on information. From the perspective of information theory, it doesn’t matter.