What is computation?

DOI10.1007/BF00413693zbMath0942.03004OpenAlexW1971033056WikidataQ56156285 ScholiaQ56156285MaRDI QIDQ1293030

B. Jack Copeland

Publication date: 15 August 2000

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00413693

zbMATH Keywords

algorithmcomputationcomputational functionalismmachine architecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Related Items (7)

Objective computation versus subjective computation ⋮ Philosophy of Computation ⋮ The instructional information processing account of digital computation ⋮ Concrete digital computation: what does it take for a physical system to compute? ⋮ The physics of implementing logic: Landauer's principle and the multiple-computations theorem ⋮ What does it mean to say that a physical system implements a computation? ⋮ When does a physical system compute?

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