# Let Machines Do the Thinking by Virginia Heffernan > "But letting machines do the thinking for us? This sounds like heaven. Thinking is optional. Thinking is suffering." > **— Virginia Heffernan**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* ## Sources and Context - **Full authored response and quotation context:** [This Sounds Like Heaven](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26138) — Edge's 2015 annual-question response by Virginia Heffernan; 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 Exteriorization|Cognitive Exteriorization]] - [[wiki/Division of Labor|Division of Labor]] - [[wiki/Automation|Automation]] - [[wiki/Agency Under Constraint|Agency Under Constraint]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "But letting machines do the thinking for us? This sounds like heaven. Thinking is optional. Thinking is suffering." — Virginia Heffernan, 2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-virginia-heffernan-let-machines-thinking ```