Arguing Quote by Iain Banks

The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.

— Alan Turing

You could have all the computer chips ever in the world and you won’t create a consciousness.

— Miguel Nicolelis

No one has a clue how to build a conscious machine, at all. We have less clue about how to do that than we…

— Stuart J. Russell

A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever.

— Roger Penrose

I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.

— Edward Boyden

We are not just highly evolved animals with biological computers embedded inside our skulls; we are also fields of consciousness without limits, transcending time,…

— Stanislav Grof

We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.

— Antonio Damasio

Scientists who have dedicated their lives to building machines that think, feel that it's only a matter of time before some form of consciousness…

— Michio Kaku

The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it.

— Bernard Beckett

These machines have no common sense; they have not yet learned to "think," and they do exactly as they are told, no more and…

— Donald Knuth

I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.

— Freeman Dyson

We are not thinking machines.

— Peter Watts