Main points:

• Several cognitive functions are transversal in significant ways, including learning and attention
• Many identifiable cognitive functions interact in substantially and important ways, including short-term and long-term memory, inferencing, generalization, prediction and anticipation, to name a few
• Because of this cognitive systems must be studied as a whole; the architecture of mind must be a first-class citizen in those studies

Main points:

• Software/hardware architecture has an effect in mainly two ways: the ability to parallelize processes, and the speed and nature of their interaction
• These features fundamentally affect both the theoretical possibilities and practical implementations of cognitive systems