I have always had an interest in computers, and for most of that time, essentially from my teenage years, I have had an interest in computer science. Now this wiki is not about computer science, but about my life in the Maze, and the whole Recovery Journey thing. Often I resort to analogies between Mind and brain on the one hand, and computers on the other, even though there are myriad differences. In a sense I'm taking inspiration from the mathematical idea of a representation in the sense that I'm representing concepts relating to how brain and Mind work, with concepts from computer science. The main reason is this: humans invented computers and computer science, essentially every line of code was written by somebody, and every transistor of every CPU was laid out under the direction of somebody. Compared to the brain, with computers we have tantamount to what I call Total Knowledge: like a game of chess we can see the whole board, and we know the rules relating to how the pieces move. With the brain we still don't really know that much about how it works, no human designed it, and we have nothing analogous to source code that we can read. The brain is a magic black box where, by comparison, computers are pretty translucent, if not totally transparent.
The other importance about concepts from computer science is that they allow us to give concrete, well-understood, examples of how and why certain patterns of reasoning are erroneous. Mathematics and physics are the other two places I turn for such examples. Why, for example, something with complex behaviour like the brain can't be properly treated as if slightly more complex than muscles. Why, as things get more complicated, there arise thresholds of complexity past which things become inherently unpredictable in some way (e.g. the halting problem that lies at the beginning of the development of the theories underlying modern computing).