Abstract
Distinguishing between physical systems that compute and those which do not requires an explanation that posits the relation between the formal concept of computation and the physical implementing system. There is confusion about how an answer to the implementation question is to be articulated leading to claims about implementation which are not sufficiently distinguished from claims about individuation. I argue that confusions about computational triviality have, in part, given rise to this conflation. In this paper, I demonstrate that there are two distinct types of triviality: a trivialization of the implementation relation and a trivialization of the individuation conditions.
