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Comment author: JoshuaFox 11 January 2013 09:21:04AM 0 points [-]

Little consideration has been given to a block on self-modification because it seems that it is impossible. You could do a non-Von Neumann machine, separating data and code, but data can be interpreted as code.

Still, consideration should be given to whether anything can be done, even if only as stopgap.