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Re:What things compute? by jamessb on Monday August 31, 2015 @03:49PM (#10148685)
And also "When does a physical system compute?" (Clare Horsman, Susan Stepney, Rob C. Wagner, Viv Kendon): http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/470/2169/2014...
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Re:What things compute? by danghica on Monday August 31, 2015 @03:55PM (#10148716)
Yes, but they merely spell out Chalmers's implementation relation without even acknowledging it properly:

"The question of when a physical system is computing is fundamentally a question about the relationship of abstract mathematical/logical entities to physical ones [22]."

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