Physical Computation: A Mechanistic Account
by Gualtiero Piccinini /
2015 / English / PDF
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Computation permeates our world, but a satisfactory philosophical theory of what it is has been lacking. Gualtiero Piccinini presents a mechanistic account of what makes a physical system a computing system. He argues that computation does not entail representation or information-processing, although information-processing entails computation.
