First Mechanical Gear Found in a Living Creature
This gives us four possibilities:<p>1. This geared creature must be considered part mechanical.  A cyborg, if you will.<p>2. A "gear" is no longer (and was never) a "mechanical" device, but instead an organic one.  Using gears is no longer (and was maybe never) doing mechanics.<p>3. Whether something is mechanical or organic depends on the process which created it.  This is the "colored bits" or "patent" view.  (If I build something using intuition instead of reason, am I no longer doing mechanics?)<p>4. A gear is no longer (and was never) either mechanic or organic, and is simply a physical process.  The whole "mechanical" and "organic" division is a false dichotomy.