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ChrisGreenHeur 36 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Computation as a universal and fundamental concept

Best way to show this is to implement information in multiple physical substrates. Make a book out of paper and make it out of clay. Same information. The physical substrate doesn’t matter.

lmpdev 34 days ago [–]

A parallel concept to this is from functionalism/theory of mind in Philosophy is that of Multiple Realisability

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