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This is due to the analogous use of subsumption in human behavior: human psychomotor behavior can be intuitively modeled as layered behaviors with incoming sensory inputs, where higher behavioral levels are able to subsume lower behaviors.
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IEEE Spectrum, 2 Nov. 2020
Where the fungal era has been about venerating unknowable nonhuman maybe-intelligence and believing that hope can be dredged from ruin, the metabolic era is about submission, subsumption by the great enzyme, the desire for transformative annihilation.
—Kelly Pendergrast, WIRED, 14 July 2023
Not unlike visionaries and mystics, martyrs and saints, the narrator finds a path to liberation through self-erasure or subsumption in sublime experience.
—Saidiya Hartman, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2023
Buffalo Boy is both a lampooning and subsumption of the cowboy myth, recalibrating frontier notions of manhood.
—New York Times, 17 Feb. 2022
Such a prospect—that relation will tip over into identity, and then subsumption—sends shock waves of pleasure and terror through much of Bechdel’s work.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021
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IEEE Spectrum, 2 Nov. 2020
Where the fungal era has been about venerating unknowable nonhuman maybe-intelligence and believing that hope can be dredged from ruin, the metabolic era is about submission, subsumption by the great enzyme, the desire for transformative annihilation.
—Kelly Pendergrast, WIRED, 14 July 2023
Not unlike visionaries and mystics, martyrs and saints, the narrator finds a path to liberation through self-erasure or subsumption in sublime experience.
—Saidiya Hartman, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2023
Buffalo Boy is both a lampooning and subsumption of the cowboy myth, recalibrating frontier notions of manhood.
—New York Times, 17 Feb. 2022
Such a prospect—that relation will tip over into identity, and then subsumption—sends shock waves of pleasure and terror through much of Bechdel’s work.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021
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“Subsumption.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/subsumption. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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