Dunn proposes that Smith’s fluent dictation resembles automatic writing, comparing other lengthy texts produced with little conscious planning. He suggests that memory outside awareness could account for biblical language and distinguishes an account of the psychological process from a judgment about whether the text is inspired.
- Scott C. Dunn, “Spirit Writing: Another Look at the Book of Mormon,” Sunstone 10, no. 6 (1985): 16–26.
- Scott C. Dunn, “Automaticity and the Dictation of the Book of Mormon,” American Apocrypha: Essays on the Book of Mormon (2002): 17–46.