What is it about?
Pancomputationalism is a philosophical claim, that real entities are founded on computational processes. In pancomputationalism every phenomena has a computational character too independently on actual possibility of interpreting these processes in the terms of available computing models. We have analyzed concept of computing in a generality, and there has been shown, that there is no reason to sustain that pancomputationalism have to be reduced to Turing model of computing. This model is strictly antropomorphized, and there is no reason to claim that reality shares this property.
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Why is it important?
This paper is important, because antropomorphic assumptions about computation are prevailing in the philosophical interpretation of computing. It seems to be a false way, as in science antropomorphims leads to dead-ends or misunderstandings. In this paper we have proposed how we should change our conceptual framework due to antropomorphism avoiding.
Perspectives
This paper should be a starting point in a discussion how to extend concept of computation in a pancomputationalism. Typically assumed Turing model is usefull in computer science, however it should not be a model of whole reality.
Paweł Polak
Uniwersytet Papieski Jana Pawla II
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This page is a summary of: Deanthropomorphized Pancomputationalism and the Concept of Computing, March 2019, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.2478/fcds-2019-0004.
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