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Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:32 |
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[New Entry by Gualtiero Piccinini on July 21, 2010.]
In our ordinary discourse, we distinguish between physical systems that perform computations, such as computers and calculators, and physical systems that dont, such as rocks. Among computing devices, we distinguish between more and less powerful ones. These distinctions affect our behavior: if a device is computationally more powerful than another, we pay more money for it. What grounds these...
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