TY - BOOK ID - 120788551 TI - The nature of physical computation PY - 2022 SN - 0197552412 0197552390 0197552404 0197552382 PB - New York, New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Computers KW - Computer science KW - Semantic computing. KW - Philosophy. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:120788551 AB - 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. ER -