On Epistemically Useful Physical Computation.

Piccinini's usability constraint states that physical processes must have "physically constructible manifestation[s]" to be included in epistemically useful models of physical computation. But to determine what physical processes can be implemented in physical systems (as parts of computations), we...

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Publicado en:Philosophy of Science Vol. 90; no. 4; pp. 974 - 985
Autor principal: Schmitz, Timothy
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Cambridge University Press Oct2023
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      ab: Piccinini's usability constraint states that physical processes must have "physically constructible manifestation[s]" to be included in epistemically useful models of physical computation. But to determine what physical processes can be implemented in physical systems (as parts of computations), we must already know what physical processes can be implemented in physical systems (as parts of processes for constructing computing systems). We need additional assumptions about what qualifies as a building process. Piccinini implicitly assumes a classical computational understanding of executable processes, but this is an assumption imposed on physical theories and may artificially limit our picture of epistemically useful physical computation.
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