This book analyzes the errors of mechanical ideology and the degeneration of minds induced by these fallacies, addressing both general readers and software practitioners. According to Mechanism, the entire world may be modeled as a straightforward hierarchy of entities.
However, this concept is largely useless because most aspects of the world are too complicated to be reduced to simple structures, despite being beneficial in industries like manufacturing and mathematics.
In particular, our software-related affairs cannot be portrayed in this way. All software applications, programming theories, and development frameworks, however, make an effort to distill complex real-world issues into tidy hierarchical structures of data, processes, and features.
The book demonstrates how the mechanistic worldview has transformed the majority of our software-related activities into pseudoscientific endeavors using Karl Popper's well-known rules of demarcation between science and pseudoscience.
The software elites are advocating false, even fraudulent, software ideas using mechanisms as their justification. Instead of allowing us to become software experts and build our own systems, they force us to rely on generic, subpar systems. Software mechanisms imitate industrial processes, which limits us to very abstract concepts and straightforward, isolated structures. However, the advantages of software can only be realized if we begin with low-level components and learn to build large, interacting systems.
Read the book if you are learning to program in school. Read the book if you make a livelihood programming. Read the book if you oversee programmers. Read the book before buying a software system if you're considering making an investment. Above all, read "Software and Mind: The Mechanistic Myth and its Consequences" by Andrei Sorin, Ph.D., if you find yourself sticking to the orthodoxy of some approach. It might help you consider new possibilities.
Anyone entering the programming field should be forced to read this book about the state of software development today. Give a copy of this book to any programmer who is rigidly adhering to a methodology right now.
