conscious automatism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.81 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] and in that case even proud man's consciousness is no more a cause of his actions than the flash is the cause of the explosion of which it is a concomitant. A strange conclusion seems to come from this theory of Conscious Automatism, however the “Automatists” themselves may be able to evade it."
- "Now, this theory of conscious automatism is not merely a legitimate outcome of the theory that nervous changes are the causes of mental changes, but it is logically the only possible outcome. Nor do I see any way in which this theory can be fought on grounds of physiology. If we persist in regarding the association between brain and thought exclusively from a physiological point of view, we must of necessity be materialists."
- "The theory of human automatism that best captured the Victorian imagination was Thomas Huxley’s conscious automatism. Huxley argued, to great notoriety at the 1874 meeting of the British Association of Science, that humans are automata. According to Huxley, an inefficacious consciousness takes itself to be in control, when in reality it merely accompanies the automatic, unconscious production of behavior. That is, all human behavior is automatic."