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Computation in Physical Systems (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computation-physicalsystems

“In our ordinary discourse, we distinguish between physical systems that perform computations, such as computers and calculators, and physical systems that don’t, such as rocks and raindrops. Among computing devices, we distinguish between more and less powerful ones. These distinctions are of both...” (from the page’s text)

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