Editing Computation (section)

=== The mapping account ===
An alternative account of computation is found throughout the works of [[Hilary Putnam]] and others. [[Peter Godfrey-Smith]] has dubbed this the "simple mapping account."<ref>{{Citation|last=Godfrey-Smith|first=P.|year=2009|title=Triviality Arguments against Functionalism|journal=Philosophical Studies|volume=145|issue=2|pages=273–95|doi=10.1007/s11098-008-9231-3|s2cid=73619367 }}</ref> [[Gualtiero Piccinini|Gualtiero Piccinini's]] summary of this account states that a physical system can be said to perform a specific computation when there is a mapping between the state of that system and the computation such that the "microphysical states [of the system] mirror the state transitions between the computational states."<ref>{{cite book|last=Piccinini|first=Gualtiero|title=Physical Computation: A Mechanistic Account|place=Oxford|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2015|page=18|isbn=9780199658855}}</ref>