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Physical Computation

Name: Physical Computation
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 09083196
Price: 48964 HUF
Availability: InStock
Author: Gualtiero Piccinini
ISBN: 9780199658855

A Mechanistic Account

Gualtiero Piccinini

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 09083196

Publishers Oxford University Press, July 2015

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Gualtiero Piccinini articulates and defends a mechanistic account of concrete, or physical, computation. A physical system is a computing system just in case it is a mechanism one of whose functions is to manipulate vehicles based solely on differences between different portions of the vehicles according to a rule defined over the vehicles. The Nature of Computation discusses previous accounts of computation and argues that the mechanistic account is better. Many kinds of computation are explicated, such as digital vs. analog, serial vs. parallel, neural network computation, program-controlled computation, and more. Piccinini argues that computation does not entail representation or information processing although information processing entails computation. Pancomputationalism, according to which every physical system is computational, is rejected. A modest version of the physical Church-Turing thesis, according to which any function that is physically computable is computable by Turing machines, is defended.