Given recent advances in the field of artificial intelligence, the notion of creating a digital machine capable of not only logical operations, but also of complex inferences and other processes usually associated with human thought, must now be considered. This chapter attempts to provide a speculative basis for such a consideration. The chapter attempts to defend the position that although machine "intelligence" will always differ from human intelligence in nature, it will exceed human intelligence in significant ways that will require a serious and profound reflection on the meaning of thought itself.