This extreme mechanical view can be depressing.
But the mechanical view is comforting, too.
Ofsted has a much narrower focus, a more "mechanical" view of what makes a good teacher.
The "mechanical" view of congressional politics originated in the ideas of Newton, while a more sophisticated presidential politics reflected the adaptive, evolutionary system of Darwin.
Wright has, for the purposes of his book, tied himself to a mechanical view of the constraints that operate on the human mind — the same one that he has posited in previous books, rooted in the doctrines of evolutionary psychology.
Devotional songs and statements, however, persistently deny all mechanical views of divine exchanges, insisting that humans have nothing to give, that everything belongs to God, and that no truly religious action should ever be performed instrumentally.
He bristles, for instance, at the cosmologist Lawrence Krauss's claim that "philosophy hasn't progressed in 2,000 years," and wonders why popular writing on cosmology relies on words like "beautiful" and "dazzling" to describe an otherwise cold, mechanical view of the universe.
But Scandinavian art was the focus of his bequest; examples include C. W. Eckersberg's tight, almost mechanical views of harbors in Copenhagen, as well as more sensitive portraits of grizzled fishermen and precocious toddlers by a fellow Dane, Christen Kobke.
Without going into details, Mach regarded physical objects as unnecessary hypostasizations, implying that the mechanical view underlying physics is little more than an elaborate myth.
