See also the word 'automatic' on Wiktionary [1] (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Automatic)
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Automatism in Surrealism has taken on many forms, from the automaticwriting and drawing initially practiced by surrealists, to similar, or perhaps parallel phenomena, such as the non-idiomatic improvisation of free jazz [1].
Surrealistautomatism is different from mediumistic automatism, from which the term was inspired.
Mediumistic automatism, in which the speech, writing or behaviour produced is purported to be communicated from ghosts, spirits or the like, channeling through a psychic or medium For other meanings of medium, see medium (disambiguation).
Automatism rests on the idea that the person acts without thought, but if it is the case that many everyday actions are carried out automatically without there being any distinctive thinking process involved, this situation is not as exceptional as the defence suggests.