# Calling Machine Thought Human Is Only a Metaphor by Julia Clarke > "Describing a machine as "thinking" could be a simple heuristic convenience or machine design might be explicitly biomimetic." > **— Julia Clarke**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* ## Sources and Context - **Full authored response and quotation context:** [Machine Thought Will Never Have More Than A Metaphorical Relationship With Human Thought](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26182) — Edge's 2015 annual-question response by Julia Clarke; 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/Functionalism|Functionalism]] - [[wiki/Biological Naturalism|Biological Naturalism]] - [[wiki/Symbolic AI|Symbolic AI]] - [[wiki/Philosophy of Mind|Philosophy of Mind]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "Describing a machine as "thinking" could be a simple heuristic convenience or machine design might be explicitly biomimetic." — Julia Clarke, 2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-julia-clarke-calling-machine-thought-human-only ```