The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man. (B. F. Skinner)

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.

B. F. Skinner

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