Judging by my results, humans seem to be very unlike machines. The fact that my times varied greatly from trial to trial and in some cases improved with practice are incongruent with the notion of humans as machines. A machine's times would remain constant, which is quite unlike my results.
I wouldn't say that human's are very unlike machines. The fact that we have stimulus triggers and responses, reactions and synapses, that is all very assembly line-like and machine-esque. It definitely is true that there is a lot of variation in human responses in daily life, as proven by the different time responses and elements like these make humans very unlike machines. However, our inner workings and bodily functions mainly progress without our having to do anything and thus are very machine like.
I agree with Brennan in that humans are unlike machines. Even though humans do have stimulus triggers and responses, it is impossible for an action to be repeated exactly while machines are programmed to do the same task over and over the exact same way. Humans often try to copy the actions of machines because the machines' methods are a lot of the time the most efficient way to do something but humans will never be able to function as machines.
My opinion is a mixture of the rest of your opinions, with only a slight addition. Humans are unlike machines becuase of the improvement factor and that we have more variation. We have the ability to adapt and improve whereas machines repeat an action constantly in the same manner every time. However, i additionaly believe that this point can be argued becuase machines do improve as technology improves. In spite of this point, I still come to the same conclusion that humans are unlike machines mainly becuase the consistency in machines surmounts to a very large difference between humans and machines; one that cant be ignored or powerfully countered. -AG
I understand that humans are unlike machines in respect to the fact that humans can learn and improve the task they are doing or that humans can never do the same thing exactly the same twice. However, I think humans are like machines because just like humans make errors, machines can make errors, too. Nothing is perfect. Also, a machine is built to do the job exactly how its supposed to do the first time. Humans do have to learn certain behaviors, but it will get to a certain point where, it doesn't matter how many times I practice catching the ruler, I will hit a point where I can't do any better, like I'm doing the job exactly how I'm supposed to do. Plus, you have to think machines are like humans because humans build machines and model them after what they know; human behavior. Machines wouldn't exist unless humans built them and they are built to do things as well or better than humans would do. Simply their existence proves they are like humans (or humans are like machines) because they have comparable skills to humans.
