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Rees's Edge response of 2015 states that non-biological "brains" may develop insights as far beyond human imaginings as string theory is for a mouse, and that the development of silicon-based computers could be as dramatic as the evolution from single-celled organisms to humans. Copy claim link
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Date 2015 · publication Records dated 2015 → Role Articulation Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope and limits Rees states the gap as a possibility ("may"); the second clause is paraphrased.
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Organic Intelligence Has No Long-Term Future ↗ Edge (edge.org), response to the 2015 Edge Question "What do you think about machines that think?" · 2015
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Source excerpt “non-biological "brains" may develop insights as far beyond our imaginings as string theory is for a mouse” Location in source Seventh paragraph
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Source details and check notes Authors Martin Rees Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 26dfac49b3f77165baa935db5c6285aac74a6980e0115285c52c103257cf6f13). Current Edge response page (response-detail/26160) under "2015 : WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT MACHINES THAT THINK?". Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-31 Language English (en) Attribution Martin Rees, “Organic Intelligence Has No Long-Term Future”, 2015. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The quotation (17 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-11-01, item 100) re-read the record’s source and agreed with its stance; its corrections were applied at admission. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
Organic Intelligence Has No Long-Term Future ↗ Edge (edge.org), response to the 2015 Edge Question "What do you think about machines that think?" · 2015
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Paraphrase No chemical or metabolic limits constrain silicon-based computers as they constrain organic brains; their further development could be as dramatic as the evolution from single-celled organisms to humans.
Location in source Sixth paragraph
How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher
Machine-checked · 2026-11-01
Source details and check notes Authors Martin Rees Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 26dfac49b3f77165baa935db5c6285aac74a6980e0115285c52c103257cf6f13). Current Edge response page (response-detail/26160) under "2015 : WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT MACHINES THAT THINK?". Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-31 Language English (en) Attribution Martin Rees, “Organic Intelligence Has No Long-Term Future”, 2015. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The paraphrase is Selekoa’s, written from the text retrieved for the candidate pack; it is not a quotation and was not machine-matched. A cross-family machine check (2026-11-01, item 100) re-read the record’s source and agreed with its stance; its corrections were applied at admission. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Machine-checked . Machines found this record and checked it against its sources; no person accepted it individually. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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