Instead of agonising over whether machines can ever be conscious like humans, he aims to demonstrate specific, limited examples of consciousness. (newscientist.com)
Liberal Democrat activists arrived in Harrogate yesterday to begin their annual round of agonising over proportional representation and cannabis legalisation - only to be told they might be wasting their time. (theguardian.com)
They fight three - cornered contests, often bitterly, and do a lot of agonising about preference swaps, coalitions and so on. (johnquiggin.com)