The Physical Signature of Computation

Download or read book The Physical Signature of Computation written by Neal G Anderson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-09 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anderson and Piccinini offer the most systematic, rigorous, and comprehensive account of computational implementation to date. Their robust mapping account holds that the key for establishing that a computation is physically implemented is that the physical states bear neither more nor less information than the computational states they map onto.