"What are the elements of higher-level cognition? Causality is one element of it, and there’s also reasoning and planning, imagination, and credit assignment ..

"What are the elements of higher-level cognition? Causality is one element of it, and there’s also reasoning and planning, imagination, and credit assignment ..." I don't think we have any clue about the answer to this question. Reasoning and planning, etc., it's just epiphenomena of consciousness.