Posted by Marcus G. Daniels on URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Robert-Rosen-tp525527p525543.html
Glen E. P. Ropella wrote:
> Because he'd bought into the idea that effects cause their causes in
> living systems and he believed computation (as we know it today) cannot
> represent these causal cycles.
>
> You have to remember that he did much of this work in the 70s and 80s
Here's a paper by Ken Thompson where he describes a regular expression
implementation based on object code generated on-the-fly for the IBM
7094. The 7094 was a 60's mainframe had instructions designed for
self-modifying code. (Lisp predates that..)