@Jeff

Just so that we are on the same page what are you interpeting analytical perspective to mean? No point throwing around big words if you dont know what they mean.

@Jeff
You are exploiting hanovers interpretation of the word machine, without having defined nature your self, what is nature? My point is that being super stingy about peoples definitions gets us no where in a philisophical conversation. As wittgenstein says words can only refer to othere words.

@Jeff

How come we were put in that psoition to make that choice?

irrelevant and nothing to do with an "analytical perspective"
The circumstance should be divorced from reason if we are to make a decision that is truly rational.
I dont think you know what your talking about