Computation and Human Experience (RRE)

[Dace]

>As to how we can differentiate computers from thermostats, both sides seem
>to agree we can't.  It's the one thing both sides do agree on, that a
>thermostat is just a very simple computer.  Hence the argument.
>
>Michael
>
Just as we can call computers computers, we can call thermostats computers;
whereas in reality the only real computers are we ourselves.

Ted