ABSTRACT
To better understand the concepts of mechanical and machinic, as well as analogue and digital, I suggest we analyze the computer in its most basic ontology. The evolution and structuring of computers reveals the development of bulky machines, mainly developed by mathematicians, to designed objects of (everyday) desire. We will learn that the computer was conceived in philosophical terms of incompleteness rather than economic terms of efficiency. Accordingly, it is not necessarily implied that it must be solely used to perform mathematical, or computational, eventually digital operations such as evolutional, algorithmic, self-reproducing genetic processes. Let us then assess whether the computer has any capacities to perform other intellectual or sensorial tasks in order to approach DP.
