# Thinking Machines Could Augment Solitary Experience by Ursula Martin > "One can picture and debate a thinking machine to augment the experience of our solitary walker." > **— Ursula Martin**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* ## Sources and Context - **Full authored response and quotation context:** [Thinking Saltmarshes](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26120) — Edge's 2015 annual-question response by Ursula Martin; 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/Computational Ecology|Computational Ecology]] - [[wiki/Artificial Ecology|Artificial Ecology]] - [[wiki/Distributed Intelligence|Distributed Intelligence]] - [[wiki/Collective Intelligence|Collective Intelligence]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "One can picture and debate a thinking machine to augment the experience of our solitary walker." — Ursula Martin, 2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-ursula-martin-thinking-machines-augment-solitary-experience ```