Literature deploys the term "automatism" to capture a range of phenomena where instinct and unbidden, mechanical action override conscious deliberation. Authors describe it as a force that can both propel human progress and strip away the deliberate acts of will, suggesting that much of human behavior—from the comic effects of an involuntary gesture to the underpinnings of cultural inertia—is driven by an underlying automaticity [1, 2, 3]. In the realms of psychology and philosophy, it is explored as both a pathological condition, as when actions are performed without later recollection [4, 5], and as a creative or artistic impulse, where the freedom of expression emerges from a state of spontaneous, uncontrolled flow [6, 7, 8].