take a little more than six years to tackle intuitive thinking. Nevertheless, I do believe eventually it will be possible to replicate in machines much of what is now performed by human brains. The issue then becomes whether this is practical or cost-efficient, compared with using humans for similar tasks, who in turn often have to be educated or trained at high cost to do these activities well. Answering the second question -- whether we should replace human thinking with computers -- though is much more difficult. Machines have been replacing human activity since at least the Renaissance. The printing press put a lot of monks out of business. So won't computers start making teachers redundant? This assumes though that teaching and learning is purely about logic and reasoning. If only it were. So much of learning requires understanding of emotion and feelings, the ability of students to relate to their teachers and their fellow students, and above all, is about fostering, developing and supporting values, especially freedom, security, and well-being. Indeed, even some computer scientists such as Dr. Brown argue that computers are most valuable when they are used to support rather than replace human activities: ' It's technology to help humans do their jobs better, faster, more effectively, more efficiently '. And, as in films such as Colossus and the Matrix, it's about computers supporting humanity, not the other way round. The implications for teaching and learning Thus my belief (how will a computer handle that?) is that