# Shared Machine Minds Would Create a Collective Self by Jessica L. Tracy and Kristin Laurin > "At that point—when machines literally share minds—any self they have would necessarily become collective." > **— Jessica L. Tracy and Kristin Laurin**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* ## Sources and Context - **Full authored response and quotation context:** [Will Thinking Machines Think About Themselves?](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26257) — Edge's 2015 annual-question response by Jessica L. Tracy and Kristin Laurin; 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/Distributed Intelligence|Distributed Intelligence]] - [[wiki/Collective Intelligence|Collective Intelligence]] - [[wiki/Coupled Minds and Collective Cognition|Coupled Minds and Collective Cognition]] - [[wiki/Network Effects|Network Effects]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "At that point—when machines literally share minds—any self they have would necessarily become collective." — Jessica L. Tracy and Kristin Laurin, 2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-jessica-tracy-shared-machine-minds-create-collective ```