Software and Mind
The Mechanistic Myth and Its Consequences
by Andrei Sorin · first published 2013
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Addressing general readers as well as software practitioners, Software and Mind discusses the fallacies of the mechanistic ideology and the degradation of minds caused by these fallacies. Mechanism holds that every aspect of the world can be represented as a simple hierarchical structure of entities. But, while useful in fields like mathematics and manufacturing, this idea is generally worthless, because most aspects of the world are too complex to be reduced to simple structures. Our software-related affairs, in particular, cannot be represented in this fashion. And yet, all programming the
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on “AI is making junior devs useless” ↗I really enjoyed "Software and Mind", which I first read about on HN, though the discussion was short and people didn't seem to like the author's angle much. It's largely about how "mechanistic theories of software" hold us back, how programmers…
on “Ask HN: What are the best books you've read that few others have?” ↗…source - who put them there? That should be made known, and it should be a significant career setback. Yet the identities of those at fault are seldom mentioned. [1] http://softwareandmind.com/extracts/Software_and_Mind.pdf
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