Matteo Colombo (Tilburg University)
An adequate explication of miscomputation should do justice to the practices involved in the computational sciences. Unfortunately, relevant practices outside computer science have so far been overlooked. In this paper, I begin to fill this gap by distinguishing different notions of miscomputation in computational psychiatry. I argue that a satisfactory explication of miscomputation in computational psychiatry should involve a semantically laden characterisation of a computational system's interaction with its environment. Because the mechanistic account of physical computation does not appeal to semantics, it cannot explicate a notion of miscomputation central to computational psychiatric practice.
