Physical computation: a mechanistic account
Auteur :
Piccinini, Gualtiero
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780198801160
Date de publication :
12 juil. 2018
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,6 x 1,8 cm
Poids :
464 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.