[taeric]

In this, then, we are talking past each other. If you want to define computing as the process of doing something, than I fully agree with you. This thread was hinged on the original headline's wording of it being them "counting" things happening. Is why I asked if you would say a woman's body was counting the months/days. That, I argue, is silly.

If you are merely arguing that we can all be symbolically described, and that a woman's body is computing the baby, I'm fine with that and agree. If you are then arguing that this symbol of a baby is akin to a computation that you can represent somewhere else, and that another process that computes the same symbols is the same. I'm also still fine. I'd still reject that the body is counting or computing in the other representation's terms. But, again, that does not seem to be what you thought we were discussing.