But inside the computer, things are different. There is only definition. The world of forms is a real world for the computer. If you look at the output of a computer program, there is no point where you say, well, this result isn't accounted for by the code. The code explains all of its products.
Human concepts are different.
He wrestled with the notion that behind that word lay a concept to explain all of its various usage. But the concept itself he could never fully grasp and control. The code in a computer may be ethereal, but it is anything but unknowable. It is the anti-mystery. We could leave behind the difficulty of wondering what is real and not real, what is good and evil, and what mystery lies beneath the existence of such creatures as us.