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by FeepingCreature 939 days ago
There are views where there is an implicit substrate that exists in another layer of reality, ie. dualism. That layer is generally not counted among the substrate. So a computation can be substrate dependent by introducing a non-material cause. (Disclaimer: I don't personally know anyone who believes anything like this, so this may be a bad paraphrasing.)
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If the computation doesn't compute completely and deterministically on all substrates, then it isn't substrate independent though is it?

Human cognition would be a good example of substrate dependent computation I'd think....it even varies per instance of substrate.