# Thinking About Thinking May Require Free Will by Hans Halvorson > "One intriguing possibility is that for a machine to think about thinking, it will need to have something like free will." > **— Hans Halvorson**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* ## Sources and Context - **Full authored response and quotation context:** [Meta-thinking](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26188) — Edge's 2015 annual-question response by Hans Halvorson; 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/Free Will|Free Will]] - [[wiki/Organoid Intelligence|Organoid Intelligence]] - [[wiki/Computer Architecture|Computer Architecture]] - [[wiki/Computer Science|Computer Science]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "One intriguing possibility is that for a machine to think about thinking, it will need to have something like free will." — Hans Halvorson, 2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-hans-halvorson-thinking-thinking-require-free ```