I disagree with your use of the word "simply". "Automaton" is another potentially problematic word. Wiki tells me it means, literally, "acting of one's own wil

I disagree with your use of the word "simply". "Automaton" is another potentially problematic word. Wiki tells me it means, literally, "acting of one's own will" - which we do - but most people would use it to refer to something that lacks some essential component of being human, which definitionally we don't. It is not a compliment to be called an automaton.