David Marr’s Concept of a Computational Theory for Understanding
an Information Processing Task in the Brain
We cannot understand how a bird flies by only studying
its wings, but need, in addition, an aerodynamic theory
of lift generation by the flow patterns around the wings.
We cannot understand how a computer works by only
studying the transistors on the circuit boards and their
connections, but need, in addition, concepts of operating
system, data structure, and application programs.