Cybernetic Revelation

Is the Terminator really a cybernetic organism if its internal structures and consciousness are totally non-organic? Or is it simply a robot wearing 'living tissue'? If so, can we even say that such tissue is alive? Does the Terminator's skin grow and decay? We know that it will slowly 'heal' so we can assume that it grows, but does that mean it could ever become cancerous? Will the organism ever malfunction in the way that organisms tend to do over time? Does it need to be fed in order to perpetuate the process? If so, what does it eat? How?

If I wear the living skin of a fox does that make me part fox? Or would the fox have to somehow get inside me first before I could reasonably claim that a transformation had occurred?

Somewhere out there in the wilds of human ingenuity there is an argument that, by the end of Terminator 2, the flesh had entered into the machine, offering the machine a glimpse of true cybernetic existence. "I know now why you cry. But it's something I can never do." The Terminator reaches the precipice of life, understands that it can go no further, and chooses death so that all flesh may survive beyond its revelation.