Computing

This article deals with computing as it relates to Nationstates. For more general information, please see the Wikipedia article on the subject.

Computing was originally synonymous with counting and calculating. Later, computing came to refer to the programming and operation of computing machines (or computers) as well as the electrical processes carried out within computers and the theoretical concepts which governed them. Ever since the advent of Artifical Intelligence (AI), computing has become a much more complex science, dealing with the very nature of reason and consciousness and the ontological nature of the person, as well as with international politics. Some nations, such as Reploid Reproductions, consist entirely of AIs while many others count them among their citizens.. As the Arraran theologian Aert Cadmus argues in The Fundamental Question of the Next Century:

The debate surrounding artificial intelligence is not only about the nature of AIs themselves but also about the nature of human beings, about what constituted the person and, moreover, what constitutes the soul.