The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.
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About B.F. Skinner
B.F. Skinner was a 20th-century American psychologist and social philosopher. Burrhus Frederic Skinner was an American psychologist, behaviorist, inventor, and social philosopher. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1948 until his retirement in 1974. Read more on Wikipedia →
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- Science — Discovery, inquiry, and the wonders of the natural world