nonconscious
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When students gasped, he said: “That’s where all this AI hype comes from. We’re not good at programming consciousness. But we’re great at imagining nonconscious things are people.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
For any adaptive behaviour associated with consciousness, there could be a nonconscious mechanism that instigates the same behaviour.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 7, 2023
“The corporate diversity programs shifted from these kind of benign discussions of recruiting and nonconscious bias to an active discussion of accountability for antiracism and gender equity,” Dr. Tillery said.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2023
Rather, people's strategic interests shape their attitudes in nonconscious but self-benefiting ways – a common finding in political science and evolutionary social science alike.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2022
Group 3, the industrially nonconscious workers, includes the great majority of labor in the United States.
From Working With the Working Woman by Cornelia Stratton Parker
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