Man is a machine
There's no reason to regard man is anything but a very complicated mechanism. Foreign bodies are merely highly complex machines—and so we can, at least in principle, make machines that will recreate our behaviour.
Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1974).
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Man is a machine
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