What Makes a Computation Unconventional?
Logic in Computer Science
2013-03-12 v1
Abstract
A coherent mathematical overview of computation and its generalisations is described. This conceptual framework is sufficient to comfortably host a wide range of contemporary thinking on embodied computation and its models.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1303.2507,
title = {What Makes a Computation Unconventional?},
author = {S. Barry Cooper},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.2507},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
Based on an invited lecture for the 'Symposium on Natural/Unconventional Computing and Its Philosophical Significance' at the AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012, University of Birmingham, July 2-6, 2012