# The Animal Life Is over Now by Hans Moravec > "The animal life is over now. The machine life has begun." > **— Hans Moravec**, *1988, Mind Children* *Verification Status: Unverified — the retrieved secondary discussion does not establish whether these exact words are Moravec's text or the secondary author's rendering of his scenario; a primary edition of* Mind Children *is still required.* ## Sources and Context - **Secondary discussion only:** [‘Your animal life is over. Machine life has begun.’ The road to immortality](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/mar/25/animal-life-is-over-machine-life-has-begun-road-to-immortality) — this article preserves the wording but does not by itself establish a primary-source quotation boundary in Moravec's 1988 book. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/Uploading Is Imminent|Uploading Is Imminent]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]] - **Article:** [[articles/Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession|Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Hans Moravec|Hans Moravec]] - [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - [[wiki/Machine Civilization|Machine Civilization]] - [[wiki/Uploaded Intelligence|Uploaded Intelligence]] - [[wiki/Substrate-Independent Evolution|Substrate-Independent Evolution]] - [[wiki/Civilizational Handoff|Civilizational Handoff]] - [[wiki/Distributed Intention|Distributed Intention]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "The animal life is over now. The machine life has begun." — Hans Moravec, 1988, Mind Children https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-hans-moravec-animal-life ```