Physical Computation: A Mechanistic Account

by Gualtiero Piccinini

Book Overview

Gualtiero Piccinini articulates and defends a mechanistic account of concrete, or physical, computation. A physical system is a computing system just in case it is a mechanism one of whose functions is to manipulate vehicles based solely on differences between different portions of the vehicles according to a rule defined over the vehicles. Physical Computation discusses previous accounts of computation and argues that the mechanistic account is better...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199658854
• ISBN13: 9780199658855
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"