self-directing

In his letter, Alito said in sum that he is refusing to recuse himself because his wife is a self-directing flag enthusiast whose flag-related activities are so extensive that it would be unfair to expect him to understand the political significance of every flag decision she might make, to the extent that he is even aware of those decisions at all.

At the time of the video’s release, Cunningham described the process of self-directing and wearing the prosthetics as “horrible” and “pointless torture,” to Pitchfork.

“Stras is so good at self-directing and understanding,” said Scott Boras, Strasburg’s agent.

And there is a wondrousness in a natural world that is blindly self-directing, driven by struggle and contingency, authored by itself.

The story of a scientist’s ill-fated invention of a self-directing, artificial human being demonstrates that the best protection against an evil scientist is a good scientist, and the best way to solve problems is to invite the advice of other researchers.