Course 6-9: Computation and Cognition | Brain and Cognitive Sciences

any intelligent creature needs to compute five basic things: where it is, what is happening in the world around it, what it should do right now, how it should implement its plan, and what it should plan to do over the longer term in order to achieve the goals it has been given.

cognitive psychology focused largely on internal representations, like beliefs, desires, and goals.

to understand any bit of the brain we should be able to explain it on each of three levels: computational, algorithmic and implementational.