# Carbon Is Not Magical but Thinking Machines Are Not Near by Gary Marcus > "What I think about machines thinking is that it won't happen anytime soon. I don't imagine that there is any in-principle limitation; carbon isn't magical, and I suspect silicon will do just fine." > **— Gary Marcus**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* ## Sources and Context - **Full authored response and quotation context:** [Machines Won't Be Thinking Anytime Soon](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26175) — Edge's 2015 annual-question response by Gary Marcus; the linked page contains the complete response and quoted passage. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|We Were Never Going to Make It]] - **Article:** [[articles/Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession|Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Machine Intelligence Continuum|Machine Intelligence Continuum]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Biological Naturalism|Biological Naturalism]] - [[wiki/Substrate Independence|Substrate Independence]] - [[wiki/AI Winter|AI Winter]] - [[wiki/Model Error|Model Error]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "What I think about machines thinking is that it won't happen anytime soon. I don't imagine that there is any in-principle limitation; carbon isn't magical, and I suspect silicon will do just fine." — Gary Marcus, 2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-gary-marcus-carbon-not-magical-thinking-machines ```