Yes. That is an annoying semantic argument. The intended discussion is pretty clearly a purposefully manufactured device made of silicon and how understanding h

Yes. That is an annoying semantic argument. The intended discussion is pretty clearly a purposefully manufactured device made of silicon and how understanding how that instantiates by watching silicon is not at all like watching how nucleotides arrange into rna. Discussions of what constitutes a computer in this context or whether an nth order effect of a “random” process are just distracting.