Is there any more slangy/easy way of saying "mistakenly about what one saw"?
Like in the below example what else can be replaced Maybe I was mistaken.?


  A: I think I heard something in the dark.
  
  B: I didn't hear anything.
  
  A: Maybe I was mistaken.



Question: What exactly is computation?
Answer: Perhaps the problem here is looking a for a highly specific definition of a very general concept. I don't see the problem of viewing virtually everything as a computation. Although we don't think about it, everything we do is expressible in terms of the Physics of the component parts, down to at least quarks buzzing about. We have the same situation with computation. There's inputs, outputs and a process (all of which could be trivial). Whether they're interesting or useful as computations or models of computation is a very different question.

The strongest working definition we have comes via the (strong) Church-Turing Thesis, which states that every possible physically realizable model of computation is no more powerful than a Turing Machine. If you believe that this is true, then although we may have lots of way to express things, ultimately we can reduce every computation to a Turing Machine, hence giving a definition of computation as "anything we can reduce to a Turing Machine".

In this model, the exploding bomb is a computation. It's not a widely applicable one (we hope ;) ), but we can model in some fashion with a Turing Machine (though there is an argument here about the nature of the output and the equivalence with the TM's output). It's also not a good model of computation in general, in that it seems unlikely that the exploding bomb model is Turing complete.