The ^ANature of Physical Computation

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The ^ANature of Physical Computation is written by Oron Shagrir and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0197552404 (ISBN 10) and 9780197552407 (ISBN 13).

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, it is very difficult to answer these questions. The book aims to shed light on the subject by arguing for the semantic view of computation, which states that computing systems are always accompanied by representations. This view is presented as an alternative to non-semantic views such as the mechanistic account of computation.