What would such a representation look like for a computer? There might exist some method for computing how the circuits are divided into modules and submodules, but how would you represent what they do? You don’t expect it to be annotated in natural language, do you?
I mean, just in case I wasn’t clear enough, you want a program that takes in a representation of some system and outputs something a human can understand, right? But even if you could automatically divide a system into a tree of submodules such that a human could in principle describe how any one works in terms of short descriptions of the function of its submodules, there is no obvious way of automatically computing those descriptions. So if you gave a circuit diagram of a CPU as the input to that universal translator, what do you want it to output?
What would such a representation look like for a computer? There might exist some method for computing how the circuits are divided into modules and submodules, but how would you represent what they do? You don’t expect it to be annotated in natural language, do you?
I mean, just in case I wasn’t clear enough, you want a program that takes in a representation of some system and outputs something a human can understand, right? But even if you could automatically divide a system into a tree of submodules such that a human could in principle describe how any one works in terms of short descriptions of the function of its submodules, there is no obvious way of automatically computing those descriptions. So if you gave a circuit diagram of a CPU as the input to that universal translator, what do you want it to output?