While overall my reaction time decreased from the base line, my reaction time did not decrease from trial to trial consistently. These results were most likely due to outside variables effecting each trial a little differently, for instance the distance the starting position the ruler was away from my hand was not always the exact same. So if you consider a machine that reacts to the stimulus of a ruler falling by catching the ruler you'd expect the amount of time it took the machine to catch the ruler to be different if the ruler's position was at different distances away for each trial. Then there's the issue that my reaction time decreased but a machine's would not. You could say that I just have more advanced parts and programming then the machine because my parts and programming allows me to develop muscle memory thus decreasing my reaction time. So to say that I'm not like a machine because my parts and programming allows me to preform more advanced actions would be like saying a computer from 2008 is not a machine because it can preform actions that a computer from the 1940's could never accomplish.
