> "...Human beings aren’t pieces of technology, no matter how sophisticated. But by talking about ourselves as such, we acquiesce to the corporations and govern

> "...Human beings aren’t pieces of technology, no matter how sophisticated. But by talking about ourselves as such, we acquiesce to the corporations and governments that decide to treat us this way. When the seers of predictive processing hail prediction as the brain’s defining achievement, they risk giving groundless credibility to the systems that automate that act – assigning the patina of intelligence to artificial predictors, no matter how crude or harmful or self-fulfilling their forecasts." This seems to summarize the main thesis. Modeling/simulating human effects by applying various technological approximations may be useful within the intended scope. However, expanding that scope and projecting the models onto the whole phenomenon of human brain is false, if not dangerous. The only purpose this sort of unwarranted projection serves is to justify the applied methods and the resulting treatment of humans. And why all these attempts to 'crack' the brain? The author posits that the main goal is control. But why one would need such a control? To subjugate, to make the world a better place, to live forever, or just make a quick buck and squirrel it away...? What do predictions tell about the ultimate intent?