Michael Wheeler - God's Machines
discusses the concept of "bodily machines".

We consider bodies to be machines in the universe-as-machine Cartesian sense, but with epistemological norms of proper functioning (our heart 'fails', etc.). The body, as seen from the mind, is then a mere "bodily machine" that is that which supports the mind and enacts intentional behavior within the environment, attributed to the mind as an agent in question.