MDMD timely article re automata

[Terrance]

You know, when Gary Kasparov was beaten by Deep
> Blue, he said, "Well, at least it didn't enjoy beating me." 

He should have said, I bet I could beat all those guys if I had a
machine too. Kasperov  was not beaten by a machine. Kasparov  without a
calculating machine was beaten by men with one. 



I certainly
> think, as most molecular biologists think, that we are fundamentally
> machines. 

This is a very misleading statement. What is a machine?