The nature of physical computation / / Oron Shagrir.
What does it mean to say that an object or system computes? What is it about laptops, smartphones, and nervous systems that they are considered to compute, and why does it seldom occur to us to describe stomachs, hurricanes, rocks, or chairs that way? Though computing systems are everywhere today, i...
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| Superior document: | Oxford studies in philosophy of science |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, New York : : Oxford University Press,, [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oxford studies in philosophy of science.
Oxford scholarship online. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (321 pages) |
| Notes: | Also issued in print: 2022. |
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