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State is the entire value and utility of a computer.


Fire is the entire value and utility of, say, a pre-Industrial Revolution forge or bakery, but it doesn't follow that therefore the more fire, or the more uncontrolled the fire, the better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_London .


the name "computer" suggests otherwise...


ok, can you state your argument as to why you think this is the case?




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