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work_gbwaz3lvyvc3hja3wv2qc5i3cu	Dimitri Coelho Mollo	Are there Teleological Functions to Compute?	2019	27	.pdf	application/pdf	9839	655	47	Several theorists have recently proposed that the mechanistic approach to scienti�c explanation provides the right framework for making sense of computation in physical systems, 124-25); while the appeal to mechanism plays a role only in accounting for how computations are implemented in physical systems. a crucial feature that distinguishes computational systems is that their vehicles are individuated in medium-independent terms. It concerns those functional types that place no constraints on the physical constitution of realising systems, but only on their degrees of freedom. that computational systems are those mechanisms with the teleological function to perform Mechanisms, it appears, cannot have the teleological function to perform concrete computations, since these are individuated in a medium-independent way, individuated in medium-independent terms can be involved in the bestowing of teleological functions, at least in the special domain of computational systems. of designed computers and cognitive systems (in the latter case, courtesy of functionalism), there can be teleofunctions to manipulate medium-independent vehicles according	./cache/work_gbwaz3lvyvc3hja3wv2qc5i3cu.pdf	./txt/work_gbwaz3lvyvc3hja3wv2qc5i3cu.txt