Reading parts of this may cause a knee-jerk reaction, because mechanistic thinking is so useful to us in engineering! What I essentially see in this is a remin

Reading parts of this may cause a knee-jerk reaction, because mechanistic thinking is so useful to us in engineering! What I essentially see in this is a reminder -- that it is easy to conflate how we look at something with what something actually is. This is why it is important to be able to step back and understand how you are thinking about a phenomenon, and to generally cultivate an internal library of different methods of thinking.