mechanistic
adjective
mech·a·nis·tic
ˌme-kə-ˈni-stik 
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One influential theory, the Global Neuronal Workspace, leaves the fleeting feelings of experience outside the scientific puzzle, treating them as irrelevant to mechanistic explanations.
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Shai Tubali, Big Think, 27 Mar. 2026
During model usage, mechanistic interpretability offers ways to guide LLMs through a kind of direct mind control.
—Matthew Hutson, IEEE Spectrum, 11 Mar. 2026
Thus, the author of this impersonal, even mechanistic view of history still found a place for the individual actor, if only for the greatest of them.
—Alfred McCoy, Literary Hub, 26 Feb. 2026
But mechanistic accounts, which leave no room for human agency, have gone out of fashion, and so Beckert distances himself from Wallerstein’s model.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
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Shai Tubali, Big Think, 27 Mar. 2026
During model usage, mechanistic interpretability offers ways to guide LLMs through a kind of direct mind control.
—Matthew Hutson, IEEE Spectrum, 11 Mar. 2026
Thus, the author of this impersonal, even mechanistic view of history still found a place for the individual actor, if only for the greatest of them.
—Alfred McCoy, Literary Hub, 26 Feb. 2026
But mechanistic accounts, which leave no room for human agency, have gone out of fashion, and so Beckert distances himself from Wallerstein’s model.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
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“Mechanistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mechanistic. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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