Why Do We Need a Theory of Implementation?

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 73 (4):1067-1091 (2022)
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Abstract

The received view of computation is methodologically bifurcated: it offers different accounts of computation in the mathematical and physical cases. But little in the way of argument has been given for this approach. This article rectifies the situation by arguing that the alternative, a unified account, is untenable. Furthermore, once these issues are brought into sharper relief we can see that work remains to be done to illuminate the relationship between physical and mathematical computation.

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André Curtis-Trudel
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Computation in physical systems.Gualtiero Piccinini - 2010 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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