Universal computation is about information processing, and information processing is definitely an important thing that intelligent agents are doing. (I wrote

Universal computation is about information processing, and information processing is definitely an important thing that intelligent agents are doing. (I wrote universal computation - to mske a distinction to common physical processes like what forks usually do - we may obviously say that a glass of water computes in a second where water molecules of that water will be in a second, but that is too direct and missing the abstraction level that my mind has (sensing and modelling my environment) or a universal turing machine has (manipulating symbols which may stand for(modell) something)