FYI: The first known computer was invented by the Greeks to navigate in 150 BC or so.
The invention happened then; all else is a refinement of the same idea - faster, better etc but still a computer.
I’m really not sure where a person can go with that.
It seems that by this type of argument, a Freightliner tractor truck is just a refinement of an Assyrian oxcart.
I suppose I just don’t see it quite that way. Things that follow similar forms but address radically different functions have never struck me as having that kind of relationship.
Perhaps I need to ponder this as a philosophical question for a while.