Machines

I'd like to continue what I was talking about in class about whether or not humans are just machines. As I said in class i think humans are not machines because our brains give us the ability to think and give us free will. Yes, its true that you can argue humans are put on earth in order to reproduce, yet, many do not. Today in my biology class we were discussing almost the opposite and saying whether or not certain objects were alive because of characteristics they had. First of all the class came to the conclusion that robots or machines were not alive, and humans are certainly alive so therefore they cannot just be robots or machines. I was interested in what my teacher had to say so I explained the situation we talked about in class and she brought up a very interesting point. She first said that they had free will as i stated above and then added that humans had the ability to be creative which machines do not. I think this is a defining difference between humans and machines. Humans are not just machines.