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    It is not the case that This ontological disagreement about what computation *is* persists even when practitioners converge on the same formal results.

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    • 1.If practitioners converge on formal results and methods, their ontological disagreements are either terminological or epistemically irrelevant.
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    • 2.Shared formal frameworks already encode shared commitments about computation's nature; ontological disputes often reflect philosophical preference, not substantive disagreement.
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    • 3.The ability to translate between different conceptualizations of computation suggests underlying unity rather than genuine metaphysical incompatibility.
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    • 1.Formal results describe *what* computation produces, not *what* it fundamentally is or how it should be conceptualized.
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    • 2.Practitioners disagree on whether computation is physical process, abstract symbol manipulation, information transformation, or causal mechanism.
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    • 3.Agreement on outputs/algorithms masks deeper disagreement about computational essence, similar to instrumentalism vs realism in physics.
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