[dahart]

Clearly you understand! An abstract machine is different from a machine, that nicely summarizes what I said. Good to know we can use the word "machine" for multiple different kinds of machines. Glad to see you agree that a Finite State Machine is a machine of the abstract variety. I'm happy that we've moved past the semantics into the practical realm of allowing communication to proceed by acknowledging that words like "machine" don't always conform to a single literal interpretation. I'm sure then that you agree with @AKrumbach and me that the opening sentence of the article was indeed not very informative, even if it was a little controversial and provided a fun thought experiment.