Maybe the ones in the gemara are some sort of metaphor. It’s strange to say that a golem every existed. This is not the same thing but, for example, Rav Sadya Goan says that the Satan in Iyov is a real person who just didn’t like him. Not an angle. Most people wouldn’t understand it that way but that’s gow he understands the TANACH. I’m sure there is a way of understanding the Gemara without saying that matter came to life without any internal organs.
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