{"id":213461,"date":"2025-05-07T10:08:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T15:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/swc-lecture-2024-blaise-aguera-y-arcas"},"modified":"2025-05-07T10:08:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T15:08:56","slug":"swc-lecture-2024-blaise-aguera-y-arcas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/swc-lecture-2024-blaise-aguera-y-arcas","title":{"rendered":"SWC Lecture 2024 \u2014 Blaise Ag\u00fcera y Arcas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZhQaCIUmJQI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the 2024 SWC Lecture, Blaise Ag\u00fcera y Arcas, VP and Fellow at Google Research and Google\u2019s CTO of Technology &amp; Society, challenged the notion that the brain is not a computer. He explained how both life and intelligence are inherently computational and may even be selected for in the same way.<\/p>\n<p>Live illustration by Alex Cagan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 2024 SWC Lecture, Blaise Ag\u00fcera y Arcas, VP and Fellow at Google Research and Google\u2019s CTO of Technology &amp; Society, challenged the notion that the brain is not a computer. He explained how both life and intelligence are inherently computational and may even be selected for in the same way. Live illustration by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}