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Re:Computational Thinking Benefits Society (2014) by Jtsummers on Thursday October 13, 2016 @04:50PM (#12703931)
Computers are any thing that computes. People are quite capable of computing. To restrict the concept to machines (and only certain classes) makes it difficult to talk about the fundamentals and models of computation.
Re:Computational Thinking Benefits Society (2014) by js8 on Friday October 14, 2016 @03:43AM (#12706636)
See - that's exactly what I point out in my other comment. It's perfectly logical (or rational) to think of humans as computers, yet doing so in practice is a terrible idea. You're basically advocating a certain model because it is simple, disregarding that it is a bad model of reality. It's one of the reasons why so much of economics really sucks.