the output is defined by its impact on people’s cognitive structure.
Is it literally? Are you saying I couldn’t send a message to someone that enabled them to print out a list of the first hundred integers without referencing a human’s cognitive structure.
Sure if it went wrong they wouldn’t be able to fix it. But even in that case it might be as well to send three different programs of things that do the same thing, so they could fix the incorrect one, rather than sending a full spec.
Is it literally? Are you saying I couldn’t send a message to someone that enabled them to print out a list of the first hundred integers without referencing a human’s cognitive structure.
Sure if it went wrong they wouldn’t be able to fix it. But even in that case it might be as well to send three different programs of things that do the same thing, so they could fix the incorrect one, rather than sending a full spec.