unwilled

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It is an unwilled loss of distinction between the simulation and that which is being simulated, including the adventures and quests of WoW.

From Forbes • Nov. 28, 2014

It is a powerful and unwilled form of identification, a Houdini-like vanishing act that allows Bolaño to merge with his scariest and most repellent creations as much as with his likable ones.

From Salon • Jan. 19, 2014

With A., B., C. and D. there were instances of unwilled movements of the images, in the experiments where the movements were not timed.

From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Münsterberg, Hugo

In Chapter VIII., we consider in what ways motor automatism—the unwilled activity of hand or voice—may be used as a means of such communication.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

Here, however, the dividing line generally sought between willed and unwilled, involuntary, or, as we say, drifting thought, becomes dim and uncertain.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.