[bperson]

The article talked about the brain because the researchers talked about the brain and they aren't modest about what they say they discovered. Blame the scien(ce/tists) not the journalist if the conclusion is disagreeable.

> Douglas Hofstadter asserts that human thought entirely depends on analogy. In describing analogy, he says, “we build concepts by putting several concepts together and putting a membrane around them, and kind of miraculously these [interior] concepts disappear." Hofstadter also noticed that analogy could be achieved using the Ising model.

> In one study, a human brain was scanned and compared to the 2D Ising model — it found that at the Ising model’s critical point, the two systems were indistinguishable from each other in all relevant statistical properties.

[ahevia]

Not sure if “journalist” is the right term here. This isn’t even a news site. It looks like someone’s personal blog/website to promote Quantum Annealing as the solution to everything.

Why do we blame the scientists here for something they didn’t write? Nobody forced the author of this post to misinterpret science. It is a reasonable assumption that a science communicator knows the science they’re communicating.

[krastanov]

I do not think there is a "journalist" here. This seems all presented as coming from a researcher (although they do not seem to identify themselves?). I do not think this should be taken particularly seriously. It is just someones ramblings for the moment, and that is fine.