He also states: “If a hoard (sic) of barbarians attacks the debate hall, the truly prudent and flexible agent will abandon reasonableness.”

Wrong. If a horde of barbarians descends on the lecture theatre, the professor will be delighted to see so many people taking in an interest in, say, recent developments in differential calculus.

I’d like to talk to this person and study their brain

It may need to be removed for the purpose, but they’ll be fine because you can just ask an LLM how to put it back again when you’re done.