• aberration - a condition markedly different than the norm; a disorder in one's mental state; an optical phenomenon
• careworn - showing the wearing effects of overwork, or care, or suffering
• placid - not easily irritated; (of a body of water) free from disturbance
• effete - marked by excessive self indulgence and moral decay
• phenomenology - the study of structures of the consciousness as experienced from the first person point of view
• quale - an instance of subjective conscious experience (plural qualia)
• writ large - on large scale, magnified; readily discerned, unmistakably indicated, clear, obvious
• predilection - tendency towards; a condition of favoring or liking
• brainish - a rich multimodal inner language that evolves with time
• valance - the value which a person places on something

The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories by Asimov (1st ×3)

The Onion was the 4th, others were from an AI white paper