Physical Computation

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Physical Computation is written by Gualtiero Piccinini and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0191748153 (ISBN 10) and 9780191748158 (ISBN 13).

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.