PHIL 3370 Lecture 1: question 1
19 Aug 2018
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In his article, james moor asks, what is it about computers that makes them revolutionary? . James moor described the computer revolution in the function of the computer itself. He emphasizes that computers are logically malleable which he defines as being able to be shaped and molded to perform any activity involving outputs, inputs, and logical operations. In other words, computers have endless possibilities of applications. For example, a computer is used today for research, reading and writing, businesses, hospitals, and many other user friendly features such as google. According to james moore, computers are the closest device we have right now to a universal tool. He also describes the syntactic and semantic dimensions of computer malleability. For instance, syntactically, the number and variety of possible functions and semantically, the operations of a computer can be taken to represent anything.
