Everything and Anything can be summed as a problem. Who, What, When, Where, and How are all problems. Philosophically-wise, do all problems share some sort of property? Yes.
Formalism is a formal system that contains meaningless symbols together with rules for manipulating them. The individual formulae are certain finite sequences of symbols obeying the syntactic rules of the formal language. A formal system consists of:
We can model any problems in life within a computational perspective. Everything as merely data. Input-Output systems. Data goes in, mungles into an algorithm, and out comes golden nugget of information. It turns out that if we were to computationally model a problem, we unlock several interesting properties that we can inspect such as the complexity of a problem, the space and time (resources) of such solution (i.e, algorithms), and proving that such problems can be distilled to another problems (i.e, kill two birds with one stone).
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