a. "Planning: a process that involves reasoning about the consequences of acting in order to choose from among a set of possible courses of actions" (Dean & Kambhampati 1996). Contemporary cognitive science uses a computational metaphor or analogy to explain the functioning of the human mind. The mind's relationship to the brain is seen as analogous to a the relation between a computer's hardware and its software
or programs. A plan-based notion of behavior can be seen as an example of a representational theory of cognition in the sense that in that view cognition is understood as computations of mental representations, with the mind conceived of as a physical symbol system.
b.i. The idea of a plan relates to artificial intelligence and the conception and creation of software to solv