It's a blob of data where only 1% of it was written with intent and the behavior of mimicking text has to be wrangled and coaxed far more than with a normal program.

That's the rough intent of putting the word "strict" into that sentence.

What is the difference to meat brains?

I mean besides the fact that it's, by construction, pseudorandom?

And beyond that the computation style is not turing-machine shaped, even remotely (although it's surely turing complete, but that doesn't mean the flavor is that of a turing machine)

I mean you can try to threaten ssh with it's kids lives but I doubt it'll let you log in.