when humans are confronted by a computer that is either not working, or working in a regime they are not intimately familiar with, they freeze - they go into brain lock.
I believe you are referring to untrained non-professionals, no?
a pilot can control *instinctively*
Abandoning your training and following your instinct is usually the quickest path to the scene of an accident.
if they are not purposely designed to make the airplane act like an airplane under pilot input
Be assured -- they are.
then they are not only wrong-headed, they are dangerous!
Uh, no.