Dialogues on Natural Code
summary
The essay claims that everyday human language functions like a programming language and backs that with recorded weekly dialogues, a published essay (DOI provided), and a concrete “natural API” illustration called abies that structures communicative templates. It demonstrates an implementability focus by treating non-determinism as normal, uses PEC examples (picture exchange) and a self-image template to model recurring interaction patterns, cites living-computation work such as Sand Pond, and argues the approach yields testable refactorings of social code.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 8:36Natural code as foundational idea
- 12:57Machines programming machines
- 21:08Natural code beyond determinism
- 33:30Natural code as useful lens
- 36:02Building bridges with natural code
- 37:35Q&A
- 47:59Closing remarks
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