# Building Thinking Machines Reveals Thought Itself by Mary Catherine Bateson > "The effort to build machines that can think is certain to make us aware of aspects of thought that are not yet fully understood." > **— Mary Catherine Bateson**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* ## Sources and Context - **Full authored response and quotation context:** [Machines That Think](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26135) — Edge's 2015 annual-question response by Mary Catherine Bateson; 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/Cognitive Science|Cognitive Science]] - [[wiki/Philosophy of Mind|Philosophy of Mind]] - [[wiki/Model Contestability|Model Contestability]] - [[wiki/Causal Learning|Causal Learning]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "The effort to build machines that can think is certain to make us aware of aspects of thought that are not yet fully understood." — Mary Catherine Bateson, 2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-mary-bateson-building-thinking-machines-reveals-thought ```