# We Use Thinking Without Discipline by James J. O'Donnell > ""Thinking" is a word we apply with no discipline whatsoever to a huge variety of reported behaviors." > **— James J. O'Donnell**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* ## Sources and Context - **Full authored response and quotation context:** [Nobody Would Ever Ask A Machine What It Thinks About Machines That Think](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26025) — Edge's 2015 annual-question response by James J. O'Donnell; 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/Philosophy of Mind|Philosophy of Mind]] - [[wiki/AI Effect|AI Effect]] - [[wiki/Epistemic Status Separation|Epistemic Status Separation]] - [[wiki/Intelligence|Intelligence]] ## Share on Social Media ``` ""Thinking" is a word we apply with no discipline whatsoever to a huge variety of reported behaviors." — James J. O'Donnell, 2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-james-donnell-use-thinking-without-discipline ```