A Speculation on Simulated Beings, Part II

Cectic has a different take on reductionism and simulated beings than I had in Part I. I'm dubious about Cectic's take. If the robots are using executable files, then they would not necessarily have access to the source code unless the Programmer included it in the executable. Instead of speculating about whether the source code was sufficient, they would speculate about whether it exists or, if they did have access to a version, whether it was a reliable guide to the object code.