The Four Causes of a Computer

If we could apply the four causes to a computer, that would testify to the perennial utility of aristotle's scheme. Unfortunately, what i know about computers could fit onto a 19 eighties floppy disk. But i'll do my best. Let's warm up with the material cause, which is easy enough. The matter of a computer is whatever it is made of, like plastic and silicon. As for the efficient cause, this too is easy to name. It is the person who built the computer, just as the father is the efficient cause of the child. In general, it looks like an efficient cause is whatever comes along and does something so that something else comes to be. This immediately