I get the impression that this thread (incl. discussion with Wei below) presupposes that you can’t just point to someone (making the question of “program” length unmotivated). What are the problems with that point of view or reasons to focus on the alternatives in this discussion? (Apart from trying to give meaning to “observer moments”.)
(Pointing to something can be interpreted as a generalized program that includes both the thing pointed to, and the pointer. Its semantics is maintained by some process in the environment that’s capable of relating the pointer to the object it points to, just like an interpreter acts on the elements of a program in computer memory.)
I get the impression that this thread (incl. discussion with Wei below) presupposes that you can’t just point to someone (making the question of “program” length unmotivated). What are the problems with that point of view or reasons to focus on the alternatives in this discussion? (Apart from trying to give meaning to “observer moments”.)
(Pointing to something can be interpreted as a generalized program that includes both the thing pointed to, and the pointer. Its semantics is maintained by some process in the environment that’s capable of relating the pointer to the object it points to, just like an interpreter acts on the elements of a program in computer memory.)