antisphexish

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What does antisphexish mean?

Not sphexish; capable, as the higher animals are, of monitoring one's own thought processes and avoiding pitfalls such as infinite loops.

Where does antisphexish come from?

From anti- + sphexish; coined by Douglas Hofstadter in 1982.

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