Human Machines

In terms of determining if humans are machines or not it is important to realize that the concept of machines was created by humans, so therefore despite my support of humans being machines in class it would seem impossible that we are machines in the sense humans think of machines. Machines are manufactured and unintelligent objects used to for the benefit of mankind. So semantically speaking we are not machines. On the other hand there is a certain logic that leads to us possibly being considered machines. The fact that we have numerous parts working together to reach the goal of survival, we are just machines tooled for survival. All animals are like this, some being better or worse at survival, making them more or less efficient machines.