that's only accurate if you don't consider words to be codes that represent a value

no, that's what words are, even if they don't compute the same, that's because they are ... what is the word

ordinals

ordinals are a priority sequence, the basis of the concept of value - what is first is most important, lesser things are less important

and after being ordinals, words are another thing:

tensors

tensors are multi-parameter values that encode many ordinals together from different ordering schemes

not meaning this as anything more than conveying the idea that ideas have a calculus, and thus they are a computation, just that the actual math involved is exactly the kind of computation that our brains do well and computers are shit at because of the incredible permutations of such scales