The Mechanical Beings

Selling software applications is not like selling tomatoes, you know.

When some guy tries to sell me a tomato, I never asked about what this tomato is going to do with my body.  More than that, when somebody sells you an exotic fruit you never tried before, my reasoning is that if it is cheap I will buy one and see if it is good. Nobody would sell me a poison, I guess.

However, it is common when selling softwares to have to explain exactly what it does. The problem is that as with fruits we do not known completely what the software does. We know what it should do.

Many times if not most of the times, this starts to be a problem.

Maybe the problem is just that we are used to the fact that machines are mechanical beings. In the mechanist sense, that is, we think they should be deterministic and understood completely. But why?

Because we should create only things that are completely understood by ourselves??

I just wonder if this is not a very biiiig limitation that we are imposing in machines. I mean, we humans do not understand the most part of our surroundings. So, machines should be that simple?

This gets even more interesting when we think that all companies employ humans to do a lot of things. And if there is something we can not understand is the human being! The brain is still the biggest puzzle around and that is not to say that we have this complex beings in groups and exchanging information. They also do complex group behavior that we hardly understand. Still, we employ them. 

In fact, it is by working together with such ununderstandable beings that we prosper. What about the Machines? 

The most reasonable answer is perhaps that machines are our child. And a child is not about being the best, but being the dream. Maybe we are just too afraid of all this chaotic relationships we have and we just want our little child to be what we wanted everything to be: mechanical.