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The Mathematician's Bias - and the Return to Embodied Computation
There are growing uncertainties surrounding the classical model of
computation established by G\"odel, Church, Kleene, Turing and others in the
1930s onwards. The mismatch between the Turing machine conception, and the
experiences of those more practically engaged in computing, has parallels with
the wider one between science and those working creatively or intuitively out
in the 'real' world. The scientific outlook is more flexible and basic than
some understand or want to admit. The science is subject to limitations which
threaten careers. We look at embodiment and disembodiment of computation as the
key to the mismatch, and find Turing had the right idea all along - amongst a
productive confusion of ideas about computation in the real and the abstract
worlds