The Shape of Actions Quotes

“To make sense of what people do, one must share their society or form of life. Therefore machines ought to be the strangest of strangers.”
― Harry M. Collins, The Shape of Actions: What Humans and Machines Can Do

“We show that the boundary between humans and machines is permeable at least insofar as humans often find reason for acting in machinelike fashion. We explore the possibility of shifts in the position of the boundary between humans and machines: If humans changed the ways they acted, they could make the very boundary between themselves and machines disappear.”
― Harry M. Collins, The Shape of Actions: What Humans and Machines Can Do