# Silicon Information Requires Human Interpretation by W. Tecumseh Fitch > "Silicon-based information processing requires interpretation by humans to become meaningful, and will for the foreseeable future." > **— W. Tecumseh Fitch**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* ## Sources and Context - **Full authored response and quotation context:** [Nano-Intentionality: Why We Have Little to Fear From "Thinking Machines"](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26214) — Edge's 2015 annual-question response by W. Tecumseh Fitch; 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/Deep-Time Future Generations|Deep-Time Future Generations]] - [[wiki/Mechanistic Intelligence|Mechanistic Intelligence]] - [[wiki/Superintelligence Cradle Theory|Superintelligence Cradle Theory]] - [[wiki/Digital Organism|Digital Organism]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "Silicon-based information processing requires interpretation by humans to become meaningful, and will for the foreseeable future." — W. Tecumseh Fitch, 2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-tecumseh-fitch-silicon-information-requires-human-interpretation ```