Exactly. In the eyes of the law, there are two catergories: humans and everything else. Monkeys/mechanical processes are everything else, and it is irrelevant

Exactly. In the eyes of the law, there are two catergories: humans and everything else. Monkeys/mechanical processes are everything else, and it is irrelevant to try to determine a monkey's intention (in the eyes of the law), just as it would be worthless to debate the intentions of the can of paint. In the eyes of the law, non-humans have no intentions.