{"id":191440,"date":"2026-02-27T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/the-brain-is-not-a-computer\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T00:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:55:10","slug":"the-brain-is-not-a-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/the-brain-is-not-a-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The brain is not a computer&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/opinion\/article\/2026\/02\/28\/david-w-bates-cybernetics-specialist-the-brain-is-not-a-computer_6750951_23.html\">&#8216;The brain is not a computer&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/opinion\/article\/2026\/02\/28\/david-w-bates-cybernetics-specialist-the-brain-is-not-a-computer_6750951_23.html\">https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/opinion\/article\/2026\/02\/28\/david-w-bates-cybernetics-specialist-the-brain-is-not-a-computer_6750951_23.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-27 22:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.lemonde.fr\">www.lemonde.fr<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>David W. Bates, an expert in cybernetics, argues that asking whether artificial intelligence (AI) will lead to the decline or enhancement of human intelligence is the wrong question.<\/li>\n<li>The term &#8220;artificial intelligence&#8221; reflects a historical comparison between human intelligence and computer systems since the 1950s, where the brain is conceptualized as akin to a computer, and vice versa.<\/li>\n<li>Bates believes that instead of AI merely simulating human functioning, there is a mutual metaphorical relationship developing, contributing to a philosophical crisis.<\/li>\n<li>He highlights the risk of humans becoming more automated in their thinking due to digital infrastructures and perceiving themselves as inferior to prediction machines.<\/li>\n<li>Bates suggests a loss of human agency as people start to understand themselves more in terms of computers, influencing not just daily life but also self-perception and conceptualizations of intelligence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;The brain is not a computer&#8217; https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/opinion\/article\/2026\/02\/28\/david-w-bates-cybernetics-specialist-the-brain-is-not-a-computer_6750951_23.html Publish Date: 2026-02-27 22:00:00 Source Domain: www.lemonde.fr David&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":191441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2026\/02\/25\/0\/0\/1500\/1000\/1440\/960\/60\/0\/5f6ad1d_upload-1-ryifecdlpm8k-frame-1069.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-191440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191442,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191440\/revisions\/191442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}