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

  Source: Contingencies of Reinforcement: A Theoretical Analysis

  B. F. Skinner
  American psychologist, behaviorist and author
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2. machines
3. thinking
4. machine
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The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man. by : B. F. Skinner

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