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Physical Computation A Mechanistic Account Paperback Piccinini

Name: Physical Computation A Mechanistic Account Paperback Piccinini
SKU: BELL-10597454
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Physical Computation A Mechanistic Account Paperback Piccinini instant download after payment.

Publisher: Oxford University Press

File Extension: PDF

File size: 2.18 MB

Pages: 313

Author: Piccinini, Gualtiero

ISBN: 9780198801160, 9780199658855, 0198801165, 0199658854

Language: English

Year: 2018

Edition: Paperback

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Physical Computation A Mechanistic Account Paperback Piccinini by Piccinini, Gualtiero 9780198801160, 9780199658855, 0198801165, 0199658854 instant download after payment.

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. Physical 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