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more than a machine

MOR than uh muh-SHEEN

mɔːr ðæn ə məˈʃiːn

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morethanamachine

Dictionary meaning

possessing qualities — consciousness, moral agency, creativity, love, or embodied understanding — that exceed what any mechanical or computational system can exhibit; the phrase asserts the irreducibility of human personhood against reductionist accounts that model people as sophisticated biological machines or treat human behaviour as merely the output of neural computation; it is invoked in ethical debates about AI's limits, in contexts where people resist being managed as interchangeable units in an organisational system, and in philosophical discussions about what makes a life genuinely meaningful rather than merely optimal according to some external metric

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