Exactly this, the bar doesn't move towards the machines by itself, its just a tool a sentient being is using to record data. Isn't the proposition analogous to

Exactly this, the bar doesn't move towards the machines by itself, its just a tool a sentient being is using to record data. Isn't the proposition analogous to proposing that a typewriter is able to compose a novel or that a violin is capable of playing a song? Neither the violin, the typewriter nor the iron bar work without a sentient human using them.