Mechanicism
Mechanicism by Turninwrenches February 20, 2022
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Dynamic Mechanicism
A hybrid philosophical and methodological stance that treats complex, evolving systems as if they were machines, but acknowledges that these machines are constantly changing their own structure, rules, and components. It's the intellectual offspring of classical mechanics and systems theory: you still look for gears, levers, and feedback loops, but you accept that the gearbox redesigns itself mid-operation. Dynamic Mechanicism refuses to abandon the analytical power of mechanistic thinking while grudgingly admitting that the "machine" has a mind of its own. It's the engineering equivalent of trying to fix a car that's also a chameleon.
Dynamic Mechanicism Example: A Dynamic Mechanicist studying a financial market doesn't just model it as static supply-demand curves. They model it as an adaptive network of interacting algorithms, each one learning and changing its behavior based on market outcomes. The "mechanism" isn't fixed; it's a population of evolving strategies. Yet they still speak in terms of feedback, equilibrium, and control—mechanistic vocabulary for a post-mechanistic world.
Dynamic Mechanicism by Dumu The Void February 11, 2026
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Dynamic Mechanicism
A philosophical worldview that sees the entire universe—including living beings, societies, and even thoughts—as fundamentally mechanical systems in motion. It's the belief that everything can ultimately be explained by the dynamic interactions of parts obeying physical laws. Dynamic mechanicism is the intellectual descendant of Newton and Laplace: the clockwork universe view, where free will is an illusion, consciousness is an emergent property of neural dynamics, and even love is just a particularly complex set of mechanical interactions.
Example: "He talked about relationships in terms of forces and reactions—a thoroughgoing dynamic mechanicism that left no room for mystery or magic."
Dynamic Mechanicism by Dumu The Void March 11, 2026
Fluid Mechanics
Ed: Ey Bob I am studying fluid mechanics
Bob: You mean the area of physics you see mathematicians and engineers study instead of physicists?
Bob: You mean the area of physics you see mathematicians and engineers study instead of physicists?
Fluid Mechanics by EpicScientician September 17, 2021
quantum mechanics
An extremely specialized area of physics that is really hard to understand, but it does actually make sense when you study it. Trust me, it's fucked up and involves a lot of fucked up math which I'm not going to explain but some of the other definitions on here explain it.
It will fuck up your worldview big time and that's one of the reasons Albert Einstein hated it so much. Can't blame him, I mean, his theory of relativity was supposed to be the one which finally described the true nature of reality and then comes along the double slit experiment and the schrodinger equation which just completely butt raped our current understanding of reality at the time and it's still puzzling today, although many scientists are searching for a grand unified theory which should explain the relationship between relativity and quantum mechanics.
Some of its philosophical implications are fucked up. Many believe it means reality doesn't exist but only our minds do, some believe it means there are parallel timelines/universes to our own, some believe its due to higher dimensions geometrically interacting with ours, some even believe it could imply our universe has some sort of pan-psyche to it. Yeah it gets really fucked. It just goes to show that we don't know shit about our universe.
It will fuck up your worldview big time and that's one of the reasons Albert Einstein hated it so much. Can't blame him, I mean, his theory of relativity was supposed to be the one which finally described the true nature of reality and then comes along the double slit experiment and the schrodinger equation which just completely butt raped our current understanding of reality at the time and it's still puzzling today, although many scientists are searching for a grand unified theory which should explain the relationship between relativity and quantum mechanics.
Some of its philosophical implications are fucked up. Many believe it means reality doesn't exist but only our minds do, some believe it means there are parallel timelines/universes to our own, some believe its due to higher dimensions geometrically interacting with ours, some even believe it could imply our universe has some sort of pan-psyche to it. Yeah it gets really fucked. It just goes to show that we don't know shit about our universe.
quantum mechanics by wugugugug November 25, 2019
Briggsy Mechanics
An auto service designed to twiddle and play with your undercarriage whilst jerking your tools to a complete manly satisfaction. The eccentric arty dwarf likes to lube your drive shaft before thrusting your reverse.
Briggsy Mechanics blew me right off my axis, I only asked them to pull my gearstick and turn me in the right direction.
Briggsy Mechanics by Arty Queen December 11, 2006
Surprise Mechanics
What EA(electronic arts) uses to describe lootboxes to try and avoid government involvement from their games.
Along with this, they have likened their fanbase's consumption of lootboxes in games such as FIFAto the consumption of a Kinder suprise egg, which unlike lootboxes doesn't come packaged in an already 60 dollar video game and has some sick ass toys in it and doesnt have less than one percent drop rates for highly wanted items
The GIF you can see below is a representation of EA's higher ups profiting off children who spend all of their parents' money on "Surprise Mechanics" in the hopes of getting their favorite soccer player in FIFA
Along with this, they have likened their fanbase's consumption of lootboxes in games such as FIFAto the consumption of a Kinder suprise egg, which unlike lootboxes doesn't come packaged in an already 60 dollar video game and has some sick ass toys in it and doesnt have less than one percent drop rates for highly wanted items
The GIF you can see below is a representation of EA's higher ups profiting off children who spend all of their parents' money on "Surprise Mechanics" in the hopes of getting their favorite soccer player in FIFA
"They aren't lootboxes, they are just surprise mechanics!"
"It isn't kidnapping, it's just surprise adoption!"
"It isn't kidnapping, it's just surprise adoption!"
Surprise Mechanics by tiddeh July 19, 2019