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This book is largely a study of delusions – mechanistic delusions. But, whereas in the following chapters we discuss the logical aspects of these delusions, in this introductory chapter we concentrate on their human aspects. Belief, as we all know, is stronger than reason. For a person who believes that the number 13 brings misfortune, a hundred logical arguments demonstrating the fallacy of this idea amount to nothing; at the same time, one story of an accident that occurred on the 13th day of a month suffices to validate the idea. Similarly, we will see, it is quite easy to expose the absurdity of the mechanistic beliefs. Yet hundreds of millions of people – people who think of themselves as modern and rational – spend a great part of their life engaged in activities that are, essentially, an enactment of these beliefs. Clearly, it would be futile to attempt to understand