AMA | September 2024

3509.425 - 3531.052 Sean Carroll

That seems like cheating, considering that there is a copy instruction in the base language. This point is even kind of acknowledged later, but not as a weakening of the original claim. More generally, do you think that starting from a programming language to make computation emerge is a weak point of this approach? So again, as I alluded to before, it's not a weak point of the approach.