The Philosophy of Computation
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چکیده
Computation used to be synonymous to calculation. Now computation is what computers do, and it has become the engine of science. Increasingly more powerful machines push the limit of what is known in many fields. Intelligent systems compete with humans and win. Even natural systems like cells or the brain are occasionally modeled in computational terms. Is this use of computation still consistent with Turing’s ground-breaking insights from the 1930s that shaped our understanding of computation till the present? Is there a notion of computation that is more fundamental? This challenging question is one of many in the philosophy of computation. We consider some of the relevant issues. What does computation actually do for us? Why do we compute? Is it plausible that cognition is computational as a process? Is there some systematic theory that explains it all? We consider possible answers.
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