# Humans May Be Learning to Think Like Machines by Ziyad Marar > "It is not that thinking machines will be emulating human minds any time soon: quite the reverse. We are cleaning up our acts, embarrassed by the fumbling inconclusiveness of messy thinking." > **— Ziyad Marar**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* ## Sources and Context - **Full authored response and quotation context:** [Are We Thinking More Like Machines That Think?](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26105) — Edge's 2015 annual-question response by Ziyad Marar; 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 Enclosure|Cognitive Enclosure]] - [[wiki/Algorithmic Rationalization|Algorithmic Rationalization]] - [[wiki/Cognitive Architecture|Cognitive Architecture]] - [[wiki/Information-Processing Psychology|Information-Processing Psychology]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "It is not that thinking machines will be emulating human minds any time soon: quite the reverse. We are cleaning up our acts, embarrassed by the fumbling inconclusiveness of messy thinking." — Ziyad Marar, 2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-ziyad-marar-humans-learning-think-like-machines ```