machinise

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machinise (third-person singular simple present machinises, present participle machinising, simple past and past participle machinised)

  1. Alternative form of machinize
    • 1994, Harikumar Basi, Automatic Translation: Seminar Proceedings, page 102:
      Can I say that all grammar is an attempt to mechanize or machinise a natural language?
    • 2016, R. Tallis, The Explicit Animal: A Defence of Human Consciousness, page 90:
      In other words, to get across the machine/mind barrier, it is not sufficient to machinise the mind; one must machinise the mind using terms that have already unobtrusively mentalised machines.
    • 2016, R. Tallis, Enemies of Hope: A Critique of Contemporary Pessimism, page 300:
      The two go hand in hand: any attempt to machinise consciousness is invariably associated with a (half-conscious) tendency to confer consciousness upon a putative machinery (of consciousness).

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