CHATGPT DOESN’T THINK. NEITHER DOES THE BRAIN?

Miguel Benasayag, philosopher and psychoanalyst

Philosopher and psychoanalyst Miguel Benasayag reflects on the relationship between artificial intelligence and the human condition, addressing the cultural and political challenges posed by new technologies. At the core of his analysis lies the need to move beyond both uncritical enthusiasm and technophobic nostalgia, and instead ask what it means to remain fully alive in a world increasingly colonized by the digital. With his critical and original perspective, Benasayag underscores the importance of limits, embodiment, historicity and freedom as irreducible elements of human experience—standing against the reduction of humanity to a mere efficient machine. This talk is an invitation to imagine new forms of hybridization between technology and life, capable of preserving the complexity and richness of the living.