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English
Etymology
From antisphexish + -ness, coined by Douglas Hofstadter.
Noun
antisphexishness (uncountable)
- The state or condition of being antisphexish.
1985, Douglas Hofstadter, “On the Seeming Paradox of Mechanizing Creativity”, in Metamagical Themas, New York: Basic Books, →ISBN, page 529:I propose to call the quality here portrayed sphexishness, and its opposite antisphexishness (a vexish word to pronounce!), and then I propose that consciousness is simply the possession of antisphexishness to the highest possible degree. The point is that sphexishness and antisphexishness are two extremes along a continuum.
2002 January 25, Eliezer Yudkowsky, “Singularity Fun Theory (was: Ethical basics)”, in SL4 mailing list, message-ID <[email protected]>:Do you have to yank out your own antisphexishness routines in order not to be bored by eternal life? (I.e., modify yourself so that you have "fun" in spending a thousand years carving table legs, a la "Permutation City".)
Translations
state or condition of being antisphexish