"We still lack a lot of technical knowledge on Terminators in general, but a Terminator's biological covering must be able to sustain itself, and it does work with its underlying endoskeleton.

You can make the case that a Terminator itself is an organism. The materials used for its endoskeleton and operating systems are inorganic, but they are there and similar to an organic being. Hydralics as opposed to mucles, steel skeleton instead of a calcium-based one, a Neural-Net processor instead of a human brain (both have massive parallel-processing capacities), a power cell and wiring, etc.

All the parts are there, they are just built and packaged differently.

On the flip side, nature already has created a lot machinery; compact, lightweight, durable and energy efficient. Has anyone here ever owned a computer that worked continuously with 99% uptime for at least sixty to one-hundred years or more?

Cameron is not human, she's a different form of life. If she were an alien from Mars, would we even be debating this?"

"You're the only person I think to mention the rubber skin model. This part of the future where they'er all in the house is, from working it all out, the part of the future where Kyle just gets sent back, which is towards the END of the war, if you recall T1 "it's defense grid was smashed... we'd won". The move of skynet to develop a secret weapon, i.e the time displacement device, was of pure desperatation (i think it alludes to this fact in T1 also), so my point is, why that far into the war was a rubber-skinned early model doing Skynet's bidding, when by this time, they obviously had the T-X, and now as we learn, the T-888? It can't be Skynet's gig, but I guess we will find out soon enough - this is probably seeding a later-to-be-revealed plot-thickener. "

"in t2 arnold calls himself a cybernetic organism"