Computational Law, Symbolic Discourse, and the AI Constitution

But physics and chemistry give us a clear definition of the element magnesium -- which we can then use in the Wolfram Language to have a well-defined "magnesium" entity. It's very important that the Wolfram Language is a symbolic language -- because it means that the things in it don't immediately have to have "values;" they can just be symbolic constructs that stand for themselves. And so, for example, the entity "magnesium" is represented as a symbolic construct, that doesn't itself "do" anything, but can still appear in a computation, just like, for example, a number (like 9.45) can appear. There are many kinds of constructs that the Wolfram Language supports. Like "New York City" or "last Christmas" or "geographically contained within." And the point is that the design of the language has defined a precise meaning for them. New York City, for example, is taken to mean the precise legal entity considered to be New York City, with geographical borders defined by law.