You’re not a machine. I’m also tired of hearing that ontological take spouted by AI enthusiasts.

I think humans are machines, they are just vastly more advanced than any machine invented by humans. This is something I thought long before the current AI hype cycle.

What do you think are some important differences between machines and humans?

Is there a difference in how you treat machines vs how you treat humans?

If you're not religious, I would like to hear why or how we are not machines.

How are we machines?

What is the non machine part? What do you believe exists other than chemical and electrical systems?

Edit: If you mean machine in a more colloquial sense that's fine. Let us first get clear if we mean machine in that sense or in sense of any physical mechanism.