"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes" – Edsger Dijkstra

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• Biology and computer science are not two different fields; they are both branches of information science, working in distinct media with much in common.claim0.771
  Strong unification claim motivating the proposed new science of embodied computation
• A computer program is not defined by its language or hardware but as an abstract causal pattern, a dynamic mathematical structure that influences the physical universe without violating its causal closure.claim0.746
  Paper's ontological characterization of software enabling cyberanimism
• Much of what is written by philosophers of science is either false or incomplete because they do not take account of the implications of Schrödinger's ideas for chemistry and biology.claim0.736
  Sloman's broad methodological critique of philosophy of science.
• "Computational processes are abstract beings that inhabit computers... A computational process is indeed much like a sorcerer's idea of a spirit. It cannot be seen or touched. It is not composed of matter at all."quote0.732
  Load-bearing quote from SICP framing computation as spirit-like; grounds the cyberanimism framework
• Order provides terminology, notation, and models across diverse areas of computer science including comparisons of size, information content, and definedness.claim0.721
• Information can increase in computation only relative to subsystems and observersclaim0.712
  The author argues that while total system information is conserved (thermodynamic), computation gains information for the observer by making implicit information explicit and discarding irrelevant data.
• Hardware becomes faster more slowly than software becomes slower.concept0.712
• Alexander jettisons many arguments; he rejects the computers and mathematics used in Notes a year after its publication.claim0.711
  Observation of Alexander's pattern of self-rejection.