The goal of building cognitive architectures is to achieve an understanding of mental processes by constructing testable information processing model… - Joscha Bach

Long ago, physics and other natural sciences... had become computational.

[C]ausal models can be weakly deterministic, basically associative models, which tell you if this state [S₁] happens, it is quite probable that this one [S₂] comes afterwards. Or you can get to a strongly determined model... one which tells you, if you are in this state [S₁], and this condition [c₁] is met, you're going to go exactly in this state [S₂]. If this state is not met, or a different condition [c₂] is met, you go into this state [S₃]. And this is what we call an algorithm. Now you're in the domain of computation.

[T]he notions we process... are systematically structured information, making up a dynamic system. The description of such... is the domain of cybernetics or systems science... constructive methods that allow the representation of functionality.