alt Hacker NewsThat's less "code is data is a fact of computing" and more "if you ignore the part of code that's not data then all code is data".
That's less "code is data is a fact of computing" and more "if you ignore the part of code that's not data then all code is data".
At the base of it, the TM is an abstraction built with sets and relations. Just like most computers are merely signals flowing around a circuit that get generated from other physical phenomena and will be transformed to other physical phenomenas. You can't hack around physical laws, or ignore the axiomatical rules in mathematics. The code that is not data are those things.
Everything else is data.