Physical computation: a mechanistic account
Auteur :
Piccinini, Gualtiero
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780199658855
Date de publication :
2 juil. 2015
Dimensions :
24,0 x 16,3 x 2,7 cm
Poids :
648 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.