Software and Mind: The Mechanistic Myth and Its Consequences
Software and Mind: The Mechanistic Myth and Its Consequences
By Andrei Sorin
eBook Details:
Hardcover: 944 pages
Publisher: Andsor Books; 1st edition (January 1, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-0986938900
License(s): The free digital book and extracts are licensed under theCreative Commons Attribution-NoDerivativesInternational License 4.0.
eBook Description:
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, including our
software-related affairs, can be explained with precision. Using this
idea as warrant, the software elites are promoting invalid, even
fraudulent, software notions. The book shows that software is a
non-mechanistic phenomenon, akin to language: it permits us to mirror
the world in our minds and to communicate with it. Moreover, we
increasingly depend on software in everything we do, in the same way
that we depend on language. Thus, being restricted to mechanistic
software is like thinking and communicating while being restricted to
some ready-made sentences supplied by an elite. Ultimately, by
impoverishing software, our elites are degrading our minds.
