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I think the representation part is necessary for it to be cognitive. I think plants and bacteria achieve complex behavior through non-cognitive mechanisms that rely on input from the environment without operations over models of referents in that world.

Where "non-trivial" means the operations have some minimum description length, "causal" means that interventions on the operations alter downstream events like behavior, thought, or activity, and "internal representation" means a mapping within the system to some referent in our outside the system.

All processes in any biological or non-biological system in which inputs are transformed into outputs by a non-trivial sequence of causal operations over internal representations.