Although questionable, it is perhaps to be preferred to other proposed explanations -- such as automatism, habit, "instinct," "nervous connections.". From Wordnik.com. [Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English] Reference
Here, too, it is really a kind of automatism that makes us laugh -- an automatism, as we have already remarked, closely akin to mere absentmindedness. From Wordnik.com. [Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic] Reference
Yet in a country where direct democracy is so deeply rooted that almost every decision is taken by referendum, the idea to adopt such legal "automatism" is unacceptable. From Wordnik.com. [EUobserver.com - Headline News] Reference
He closed arms and legs around it in simple automatism. From Wordnik.com. [Three Worlds To Conquer]
Were the problem of automatism a quiz game, Shattuck would be a thinker. From Wordnik.com. [The Arsenal Explodes] Reference
I'm reminded of Rudy Rucker's ideas of panpsychism and universal automatism. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-01-01] Reference
She was weary to death of American automatism and American flippant toughness. From Wordnik.com. [The Plumed Serpent] Reference
Here we have clearly before us the great significance of thymogenetic automatism. From Wordnik.com. [Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado] Reference
As we remarked in the beginning, the automatism of these functions is absolutely complete. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882] Reference
They allude to various styles of art: expressionism, minimalism, automatism and academic naturalism. From Wordnik.com. [Portrait of an Artist's Hype] Reference
Such a combination of automatism, atomism, and empiricism is well seen in the case of Guillaume Lamy. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
It is possible to interpret Descartes 'views on man and on animal automatism as providing the basis for. From Wordnik.com. [ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS] Reference
May we not ask -- Who, after all, would prefer the safety of automatism to the glory of this Divine adventure?. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive] Reference
French surrealist André Breton once coined the term “psychic automatism” to describe this kind of phenomenon. From Wordnik.com. [The Alma Drawings] Reference
It goes beyond formula or personal style into the realm of obsessive compulsion, automatism, and even sphexishness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-02-15] Reference
I have already repeatedly referred to the hypothesis that the psychic automatism in question may be only concomitant. From Wordnik.com. [Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals] Reference
The earliest occurrence of the term for referring to automatism that I have been able to locate is in William James's. From Wordnik.com. [Epiphenomenalism] Reference
We seem to get caught in a trance of automatism and routine and life passes by without recognizing what's most important. From Wordnik.com. [Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D.: Lessons From Life's Final Moments] Reference
In man, the mind runs on with a sort of terrible automatism, which has no true connection with the VERTEBRAL consciousness. From Wordnik.com. [Kangaroo] Reference
The answers to automatism are immanent in the project, a whole literature about which Shattuck fails, dishonestly, to allude. From Wordnik.com. [The Arsenal Explodes] Reference
Others in the ro - mantic and Young German movements saw in China nothing but dry pedantry and tiresome automatism in government. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
We see its practical results, and, therefore, thymogenetic automatism must stand in the first rank as of overwhelming significance. From Wordnik.com. [Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado] Reference
Academic medicine and nature healers generally have one thing in common, that they underestimate the significance of automatism and suggestion. From Wordnik.com. [Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado] Reference
While new media, machines, spectacles and sensations are generated, each process reinforces the automatism of emotional production and expenditure. From Wordnik.com. [Reading Machines] Reference
Rather, he suffered from a rare, long-term sleep disorder that put him in a state of “automatism,” in which his mind had no control over his body. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Michael J. Breus: Not Guilty By Reason Of Sleep] Reference
There was a passive automatism, a perplexing muscular rigidity which caused arms and legs, hands and head to remain, doll-like, in any position placed. From Wordnik.com. [The Metal Monster] Reference
Early in his discussion of automatism, James (1890) includes some remarks about his intellectual development, and refers to his early study of medicine. From Wordnik.com. [Epiphenomenalism] Reference
Historically, the bête machine proved to be (contrary, no doubt, to what its author intended) simply a minimal and preliminary version of human automatism. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Similar spontaneous movements were also observable in plant tissues, and by their investigation the secret of automatism in the animal world became unravelled. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches] Reference
Automatic writing, for example, a depersonalized activity if ever there was one (see Breton-Soupault, "Les Champs Magnetiques") and psychic automatism (Crevel, Desnos). From Wordnik.com. [Deconstruction: An Exchange] Reference
French thought from Descartes to the Enlight - enment thereby became the theater in which the con - cept of automatism was by degrees generalized from the animal to man. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
All these observations and several others of a similar nature would seem to be arguments in favour of a presumed "intelligence" rather than of an automatism in the animal. From Wordnik.com. [Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals] Reference
The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
The ground on which Surrealism established its foundations is described by the first Manifesto as "pure psychic automatism," presumed to reveal "the real functioning of thought.". From Wordnik.com. [The D-S Expedition: Part I] Reference
Under the name of automatism it has been advocated by Professor Huxley, and with firmer logic by Professor Clifford. From Wordnik.com. [Luck or Cunning?] Reference
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