"If we are machines, we can only do as we are bidden to do by the mechanical laws of our mechanical nature....But suppose we don't subscribe to this determinism. Suppose we don't believe that creatures are machines....To confuse or conflate creatures with machines not only makes it impossible to see the differences between them; it also masks the conflict between creatures and machines that under industrialism has resulted so far in an almost continuous sequence of victories of machines over creatures....It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines." - Wendell Berry, Life Is a Miracle
