# Thinking Cannot Replace Experimental Evidence by Gordon Kane > "But the true role of data is to confirm which answers are the correct ones. If some physicist, or some machine, figures it out they have no way to convince anyone else they have the actual answer." > **— Gordon Kane**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* ## Sources and Context - **Full authored response and quotation context:** [What Do I Think About Machines That Think?](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26075) — Edge's 2015 annual-question response by Gordon Kane; the linked page contains the complete response and quoted passage. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]] - **Article:** [[articles/STEVE|STEVE]] - **Article:** [[articles/Modern Artificial Intelligence in the 1970s|Modern Artificial Intelligence in the 1970s]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Information Architecture|Information Architecture]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Digital Thread|Digital Thread]] - [[wiki/Information Structure|Information Structure]] - [[wiki/Information Architecture|Information Architecture]] - [[wiki/Knowledge Graph|Knowledge Graph]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "But the true role of data is to confirm which answers are the correct ones. If some physicist, or some machine, figures it out they have no way to convince anyone else they have the actual answer." — Gordon Kane, 2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-gordon-kane-thinking-cannot-replace-experimental-evidence ```