“ The term computation itself comes from the Latin computare, com-‘together’ and putare ‘to reckon, to think or to section to compare the pieces’. To compute, then, is ‘to count, or to calculate’. For computer scientists, computation (or information processing) is a field of research that investigates what can and what cannot be calculated. Closely allied with this is a certain comportment towards the world maintained through computational skills and techniques.
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Berry, David M. The Philosophy of Software: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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