Anything that's living is a machine. I'm a machine; my children are machines. I can step back and see them as being a bag of skin full of biomolecules that are interacting according to some laws.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive as we are.
Almost everything is like a machine.
We have to accept that we are just machines. That's certainly what modern molecular biology says about us.
Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine.
As far as what is the line between human and machine? That's a great question.
A house is not a machine! It's something else for living - but not a machine.
Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.
I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
A human being is not a machine. Especially when it comes to creating.
I am as dispassionate as it is possible for a human being to be and not be a machine.