Monday, June 1, 2009

AUTOMATISM and AUTONOMY

What is Automatism


1748, first used by Eng. physician and philosopher David Hartley (1705-57) in ref. to involuntary animal or human actions, from Gk. automatos "self-acting," from autos- "self" (comb. form) + matos "thinking, animated." Sense of "self-acting, having power of motion" is from 1812; especially of machinery, which simulates human action from 1940.


1. self-thinking, self-acting; System of subsystems, in which coordination is simplified in order to system being     more productive or to function at all (as washing machine for example). 

2. Being a machine. 

3. Immediate answer coming from some existing code of behavior. 

4. Way of dealing with things in an automatic mode.


What is Autonomy 


1623, from Gk. autonomia, noun of quality from autonomos "independent, living by one's own laws," from auto- "self" (comb. form) + nomos "custom, law" (see numismatics).Autonomous is recorded from 1800


1. Self-organizing inside the existing system; 

2. System of  subsystems cooperating separately and without coordination.

                                             (that is description from myself and Dictionary and Thesaurus, New Oxford American Dictionary, 2nd Edition, Oxford American Writers Thesaurus, Copyright © 2005 Apple Computer, Inc.,)


I think what is interesting about this definition point of view: they are both almost like a similar systems, but with total different, how to say, governing system. Automatic system is set of smaller units governed from outside (by brain:) and interacting between each other functionally in order to work in most productive way, and autonomic system is a set of smaller units that are each on their own and having separate own functions and interacting between each other in self-governing mode, so how I thin: not limited by the necessity of certain outcome, or by the way how to approach it.

k.

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