Notions of information

remarks on Fresco's paper

Graham White

pp. 61-65

in: Philosophy & Technology 26 (1), 2013.

Abstract

We compare Fresco's analysis of the Turing machine-based notion of computation with that of others, in particular with functional programming and with the reversible computing paradigm of Toffoli and others. We conclude that, although much useful philosophical work can be done by the sort of analysis that Fresco proposes, there is, nevertheless, always likely to be a number of individually viable but different accounts of computation.