alt Hacker NewsAt 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.
You are redefining both the term "code" and the term "data" in ways that I don't think most people would agree with - and more importantly, in ways that make it impossible to talk about von Neumann architecture.