In The Matrix, is Neo a machine?

Forgive me if this is a "Well duh", or "Of course not" sort of question. I often see a lot of discussion about The Matrix and its religious symbolism, references to philosophy, etc etc. None of that really seems to explain the plot of the movies though.

Is Neo actually a machine? I don't necessarily mean that Neo is a robot with a fake layer of skin, just that his mind at least is artificial. I don't think he was born in the human farms, but he is a program imprinted onto a human brain.
In Reloaded, Smith shows that this is possible when he copies himself onto the humans body, allowing him to answer the phone and enter the real world. He doesn't look like Agent Smith, but it's Agent Smith's mind inside the other mans body. Smith says to Neo that he thinks this is possible because of what happened at the end of the first movie, when Neo jumped into Smith and destroyed him. He says:

Then you're aware of it.
Of what?
Our connection. I don't fully understand how it happened. Perhaps some part of you imprinted onto me, something overwritten or copied. It is at this point irrelevant.

I think this is the real reason Neo can control the sentinels, and why he sees the Machine City in code / energy in Revolutions. On a more reaching note, I think it's also why Keanu Reeve's acting becomes more wooden throughout the movies. In the first he's bewildered, shocked, in awe, he grunts when he fights. In the second, in the Matrix, he barely ever has an expression on his face. It's only in the real world that he shows emotion. And in the third, I don't think he ever shows emotion. He even accesses the Matrix without a plug while unconscious in Revolutions.

Here's the big one though: When Tank is training Neo, right before he wakes up and says "I know Kung Fu", Morpheus walks in and asks how he's doing. And Tank says...

10 hours straight. He's a machine.

mic drop

Submitted May 01, 2016 at 10:14PM by DeemDNB http://ift.tt/1NM4d6h