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- noun Plural form of
automatism .
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Examples
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From the beginning of human culture, the Bushman dancers have encouraged the expression of body automatisms, particularly spirited trembling and shaking.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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It seeks to investigate reflexes and instincts, automatisms and unconscious reactions.
Testing the Freedom to Choose, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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But it has told us nothing about the reflexes that have built cathedrals, railroads, and fortresses, the instincts that have produced philosophies, poems, and legal systems, the automatisms that have resulted in the growth and decline of empires, the unconscious reactions that are splitting atoms.
Testing the Freedom to Choose, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Throughout the book Beckett misses no opportunity to exploit certain automatisms in the language which lead it to fall into error.
Beckett: Still Stirring Parks, Tim 2006
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The field has proliferated theories in an attempt to make sense of it all; the philosopher Jerry Fodor 1985, 4 notes that experts are “attempting to understand thinking in terms of a baroque proliferation of scripts, plans, frames, schemata, special-purpose heuristics, expert systems, and other species of domain-specific intellectual automatisms—jumped-up habits, to put it in a nutshell.”
The Muse in the Machine David Gelernter 1994
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Stage hypnotists will use ideomotor effect and automatisms as part and parcel to a number of physically manifested hypnotic and post-hypnotic suggestions.
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Stage hypnotists will use ideomotor effect and automatisms as part and parcel to a number of physically manifested hypnotic and post-hypnotic suggestions.
Life of Brian: 2005
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Besides waking graphic automatisms, there are the sensory automatisms called dreams.
Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004
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Myers, with heroic insight, brought in the subliminal mind, source of our creative selves, and Janet, another neglected genius in psychology,14 showed through hypnosis how automatisms pervade our mental life.
Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004
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Besides waking graphic automatisms, there are the sensory automatisms called dreams.
Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004
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