Physical systems can compute with wires: redefining physical computation
jessi_cata · x · 2026-09-28
In the ongoing digital consciousness debate, the author argues physical systems can run computations using big components like wires: any definition of physical computation that denies calculators perform addition is clearly wrong.
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