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One of the most deleterious errors of our time is the assimilation of brain functioning to that of a computer. The human brain, while it can utilize or submit to some informational system, will never be understandable or viable based on the computer model. Sigmund Freud had already warned us in his time of enthusiastic positivism that the unconscious was an integral, even determining, part of cerebral activity. The irrational is inscribed at the very heart of the use of reason. It is not a great prophecy to affirm that the ongoing takeover of AI over available brains through social media will demonstrate this to us day by day through the multiplication of irrational, impulsive, and morbid acts that call into question the very existence of good social intelligence. A note to neurobiologists: the forest is a more relevant model.