Explore the foundations of cognitive science in this comprehensive lecture, the first part of an introduction to the field. Delve into natural language tasks, inferential tasks, deductive reasoning, and the importance of content in cognitive processes. Examine arithmetic word problems, levels of analysis, implicit knowledge, and motheries. Investigate heuristics, representation of the world, large language models, and behavioral experiments. Gain insights into the goals and key concepts of cognitive science, providing a solid foundation for understanding human cognition and its implications for artificial intelligence.