World of Code: The "Embodiment" of Code
Geek Orthodox Podcast, Episode 014
To exist and to interact with the world around it, computer code needs to be "embodied" in (of course) computers, and, despite its virtually infinite extensibility (at least in theory), the nature of code's embodiment has a limiting and determinative effect that we need to understand if we are going to fully grasp the impact of computer code on the world around us.
Note: The excellent visualizations of how logic gates work and are controlled by computer code are from @CoreDumpped 's brilliant video on the subject:
It is worth noting that my aim in my “World of Code” podcast is twofold:
to introduce thoughtful but non-technical (at least in terms of computer technology) viewers and listeners to how code and computers work, and
to get both technical and non-technical viewers and listeners thinking about the real-life implications of living in the World of Code in which we now exist.
My hope, having now covered the “basics” (pun intended) of both computer hardware (its “embodiment”) and software (code), is now to examine how the characteristics of current computer technology may be impacting us socially, individually, and, in some cases, spiritually.
Question:
do you know how i might edit my "comments" section, to show "replies", without having to click on them?
see comments here, for example:
https://manorthey.substack.com/p/introductions
thanks Father!
Amen!
Before becoming Orthodox I attended Point Grey Inter-Mennonite Fellowship in Vancouver.
There a Computer Science Prof- also named Mark (Greenstreet I think?), he was the first to help me out with this (I was taking logic at the time):
he said, he asks his students how small the computer chip could get, still containing ample space for computing memory (or something like that; I forget the exact question).
It was a multiple choice question:
A) Really small and no smaller
B) Infinitely small.
He said his first years always more than half chose (B).
He said, "you see? Modern people believe in Magic!"
ha!
Glad to be here, Father. Grateful evermore for your geekiness!
yours;
-mb