Turing and von Neumann Machines: Completing the New Mechanism
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15210%2F23%3A73620044" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15210/23:73620044 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://obd.upol.cz/id_publ/333199931" target="_blank" >https://obd.upol.cz/id_publ/333199931</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2023.105046" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.biosystems.2023.105046</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Turing and von Neumann Machines: Completing the New Mechanism
Original language description
Turing (1937) introduces a model of code that is followed by other pioneers of computing machines (such as Flowers 1983, Eckert, Mauchly, Brainerd 1945 and others). One of them is John von Neumann, who defines the concept of optimal code in the context of the conception of EDVAC. He later uses it to build on in his theoretical considerations of the universal constructor (von Neumann 1966). Von Neumann (1963) further presents one of the first neural network models, in relation to the work of McCulloch and Pitts (1943), for both theoretical purposes (von Neumann probe) and practical applications (computer architecture of EDVAC).The aim of this paper is (1) to describe the differences between Turingʼs and von Neumannʼs conceptualizations of code and the mechanical computing model. Between von Neumann's abstract technical conception (von Neumann 1963 and 1966) and Turingʼs more concrete biochemical conception (Turing 1952). Furthermore, (2) we want to answer the question why these influential models of mechanisms (predominantly in computer science) have so far been ignored by philosophers of the new mechanism (Machamer, Darden, Craver 2000, Glennan 2017). We will show that these classical models of machines are not only compatible with the new mechanism, but moreover complement it, since they represent a completely separate type of model of mechanism, alongside producing, maintaining and underlying (Zámečník 2021). The final (3) and main goal of our paper will be an attempt to relate von Neumannʼs and Turingʼs notion of mechanism to Barbieriʼs notion of extended mechanism (Barbieri 2015).
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA19-04236S" target="_blank" >GA19-04236S: Simplifying assumptions and non-causal explanations</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
BIOSYSTEMS
ISSN
0303-2647
e-ISSN
1872-8324
Volume of the periodical
234
Issue of the periodical within the volume
December 2023, 105046
Country of publishing house
IE - IRELAND
Number of pages
6
Pages from-to
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UT code for WoS article
001109299700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85175321301