the action or condition of being automatic; mechanical or involuntary action.
Philosophy. the doctrine that all activities of animals, or of humans and animals, are entirely controlled by physical or physiological causes in which consciousness takes no part.
Physiology. the involuntary functioning of an organic process, especially muscular, without apparent neural stimulation.
Psychology. the performance of an act or actions without the performer's awareness or conscious volition.such an act, as sleepwalking.
a method of producing pictorial art, as paintings and collages, associated chiefly with the dadaists and surrealists, in which the artist strives to allow the impulses of the unconscious to guide the hand in matters of line, color, and structure without the interference of conscious choice.
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There is an automatism to him, a preternatural talent for responding exactly, and briskly, with what is expected.
This automatism should not be checked: it should be recorded.
Sensory Automatism is the term given by students of psychical research to a centrally initiated hallucination.
The subject of Automatism has thus far been illustrated by reference to Planchette-writing alone.
This is often called absent-mindedness; it is also one of the most common and simple forms of automatism.
These studies and experiments relate to telepathy, automatism, and the action of the subliminal self.