tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722310642266356003.post3362135934266567425..comments2024-01-07T23:21:32.676+01:00Comments on The Axis of Eval: Quick, what does this machine do?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722310642266356003.post-8910548884140735132010-12-23T22:38:36.176+01:002010-12-23T22:38:36.176+01:00Thanks for the link. Here is a little more ponderi...Thanks for the link. Here is a little more pondering:<br /><br />What *is* a machine? It is not a sort of complex mechanism. It is not a physical object. Perhaps we could start by saying it is a kind of elaborated intent, expressed in an objective form . . .<br /><br />And maybe it is not so much that software is a machine, but that machines are 'software' -- that is, software is the clearest picture we have of what the concept 'machine' means . . .hxahttp://www.hxa.name/notes/noreply@blogger.com