homuncular

“This phenomenon is called "homuncular flexibility.”

The Wall Street Journal: On the Threshold of the Avatar Era

“When North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il died of a coronary this weekend after 17 years in power, the homuncular tyrant left his country much as he found it—poor and desperately hungry.”

The Wall Street Journal: Notable & Quotable

“This remark shows that Descartes tried to avoid the so-called “homuncular fallacy,” which explains perception by assuming that there is a little man in the head who perceives the output of the sense organs, and obviously leads to an infinite regress.”

Descartes and the Pineal Gland

“(There are teleological and homuncular forms of functionalism, which I do not consider here.)”

The Identity Theory of Mind

“Gollum, Mini-Me, James Carville — in their vastly different ways they all promote homuncular vitality.”

Never Mind

“Subject: conspiracy to export homuncular material.”

Science Fiction Hall of Fame

“Kevin Bacon gamely plays Nixon's loyal aide, Marine Col. Jack Brennan, and Toby Jones is the president's peculiar, homuncular agent, Swifty Lazar.”

Colorado Springs Independent

“Researchers at the University of Konstanz report "overlap or smearing of the homuncular organization of the representation of the digits in the primary somatosensory cortex”

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