The flaw in mechanistic philosophy is the metaphor underlying its premise. A machine is an artifact, usually a tool. It is something made to do something. Mechanistic philosophy posits that the world is composed of machines that just happen to be. Artifacts without any artificer, machines needing no mechanic. How is this any more plausible than the notion that the world derives its being from a necessary and intelligent being logically and causally prior to it? That would seem to better account for consciousness and personality, not qualities generally associated with machines.
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