Abstract
One usually associates computation with computers. But computation has a much broader meaning. “Computation” has two latin roots: com which means “together,” and putare which means “to contemplate.” When you contemplate two or more entities together, you compute their relationship.
The term computation indicates any operation that transforms, modifies, re-arranges or orders observed physical entities, “objects,” or their representations, “symbols.”
Heinz Von Foerster
If we do not know that we do not know, then we think we know.
R. D. Laing
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Segal, L. (2001). Computation. In: The Dream of Reality. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0115-8_6
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