[otabdeveloper4]

Yes, and people in 18th century used analogies like "humans are just intricate clockwork mechanisms". (Clockwork mechanisms were the most advanced technology at the time.)

I bet they thought themselves very smart too.

[timschmidt]

Like I said man, whatever helps you sleep at night. Even if it's a straw man like an unreferenced assertion about unnamed people in the 18th century.

p.s. which part is the clockwork? the ticker tape with the encoded data, or the part that reads it? whole thing?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfYf_rPWUdY

edit: Probably none of those since rhibosomes were discovered in the 1950s it seems.

[timschmidt]

This clockwork lookin' fella seems to have been characterized sometime around 1990: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPSm9gJkPxU