Explain why the failure to adjust behaviour after an unpleasant consequence, rather than simply a high degree of cooperativeness, is what actually defines automatic obedience.

A highly cooperative patient will still, in the ordinary course of things, modify their behaviour after an instruction turns out to be uncomfortable or unpleasant — declining to repeat it, hesitating, or asking why it is necessary. What marks automatic obedience out is precisely the absence of that ordinary self-protective adjustment: the patient continues to comply with further instructions exactly as before, as though the unpleasant experience simply did not register as a reason to behave differently. This is why the striking and specific feature is not the sheer amount of compliance shown, but its persistence unchanged in the face of direct, repeated unpleasant consequence — a pattern that goes well beyond even an unusually agreeable patient's ordinary cooperativeness.