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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: nature of physical computation
  name:
    name part: Shagrir, Oron
    name part: 1961-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource : illustrations.
  abstract: "Computing systems are everywhere today. Even the brain is thought to be a sort of computing system. But what does it mean to say that a given organ or system computes? What is it about laptops, smartphones, and nervous systems that they are deemed to compute, and why does it seldom occur to us to describe stomachs, hurricanes, rocks, or chairs that way? The book provides an extended argument for the semantic view of computation, which states that semantic properties are involved in the nature of computing systems. Laptops, smartphones, and nervous systems compute because they are accompanied by representations. Stomachs, hurricanes, and rocks, for instance, which do not have semantic properties, do not compute. The first part of the book argues that the linkage between the mathematical theory of computability and the notion of physical computation is weak. Theoretical notions such as algorithms, effective procedure, program, and automaton play only a minor role in identifying physical computation. The second part of the book reviews three influential accounts of physical computation and argues that while none of these accounts is satisfactory, each of them highlights certain key features of physical computation. The final part of the book develops and argues for a semantic account of physical computation and offers a characterization of computational explanations"--
  note: Oron Shagrir.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Computer science
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Semantic computing
  subject:
    topic: Computers
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Informatique
    topic: Philosophie
  subject:
    topic: Informatique sémantique
  subject:
    topic: Ordinateurs
    topic: Philosophie
  subject:
    topic: Computer science
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Semantic computing
  subject:
    topic: Computing & information technology
  subject:
    topic: Computers and IT
  classification: QA76.167 .S53 2022
  classification: 006
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    title info:
      title: Nature of physical computation
    name:
      name part: Shagrir, Oron, 1961-
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
    identifier: (DLC) 2021027461
    identifier: (OCoLC)1259047618
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210714
    record change date: 20260319184719.0
    record identifier: in00005720901
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng