The paper is not about computational neuroscience, but about the brain in general. For those interested, there is a great book actually titled "Principles of computational neuroscience"[1]. Also, the free "Book of Genesis"[2] has an excellent short introduction to computational neuroscience.
1. https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Computational-Modelling-Ne...
2. http://www.genesis-sim.org/iBoG/iBoGpdf/index.html